She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the Vienna University of Technology with distinction and was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2011. After starting her professional career at Siemens Austria AG/PSE, she joined the University of Vienna as a researcher and lecturer, followed by a position as a senior researcher at ETH Zurich before joining JKU Linz in 2015. Karin Anna Hummel has long-term expertise in mobile computing, human mobility characterization, networked systems, and wireless networking focusing on the areas of energy-efficient wireless networking, mobility-aware network protocols, and networks of unmanned aerial vehicles. She has been co-operating in many international research projects, leading projects and sub-groups in joint projects, and is author of more than 80 papers.