The emergenCITY scientific staff have re-elected Julian Zobel as their representative on the Board of Directors with a clear majority. Zobel, who works as a Postdoc at the Communication Networks Lab at TU Darmstadt, has been involved in the setting up of emergenCITY from the very beginning. As an associate researcher, he completed his PhD on resilient communication and the use of drones as a means of communication in the event of a crisis in 2023. Since 2024, he has been a regular scientist in the emergenCITY team. Zobel conducts research on and with Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networks (DTN) in emergenCITY program area Communication and the mission Digital Heinerblock.

“With the application of DTN, I want to make digital communication in the event of a crisis possible in the first place, and also make it more robust and resilient.”

Zobel has more than a year’s experience in his position from a previous period as WiMi representative. He attends the emergenCITY Board of Directors meetings and shares important information with the scientific staff. Above all, however, he voices the concerns, information and problems from the group of researchers to the Board of Directors.

“WiMi representation is super important so that the academic staff can also have a say and contribute to decision making ”at the top“.”

Zobel’s term runs until December 2026.

About Julian Zobel

Julian Zobel is a postdoc at the communication networks lab (KOM) at the Technical University of Darmstadt and scientist at emergenCITY. His research interests include the resilience and disruption-tolerance of decentralized communication systems as well as aerial and satellite networked systems. He also worked on IoT communication from physical to application layer and network communication protocol design. He authored and co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed scientific publications and worked on several large national projects.

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