Thilo Sauter is director of the Research Unit for Integrated Sensor Systems established by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2004. Before, he was with the Vienna University of Technology working in various fields like ASIC design and industrial communication systems.

Thilo Sauter received his Dipl.-Ing. and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology in 1992 and 1999, respectively. From 1992 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the Institute of General Electrical Engineering, working in the area of programmable logic and analog ASIC design. Since 1996, he has been with the Institute of Computer Technology, where he was head of the center of excellence for fieldbus systems and leading the factory communications group. Since 2004, he is director of the Research Unit for Integrated Sensor Systems established by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was appointed assistant professor at the Vienna University of Technology.

His current research interests are integrated sensor systems and communication networks in automation, with a focus on interconnection issues of fieldbus systems and IP-based networks as well as industrial Ethernet. He is author of more than 120 technical papers and served as Program Co-Chair of WFCS 2004 and ETFA 2005.

He is member of the Austrian technical committee �VE MR65SC and delegate in the CENELEC committee TC65CX, both concerned with fieldbus standardization. Furthermore, he is AdCom member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, co-chair of the IEEE IES SC for Factory Communications and IES representative in the AdCom of the IEEE Sensors Council. In Spring 2006, he was elected Vice Chair of the IEEE Austria Section.