Kurt Tutschku holds the Chair of “Future Communication” (endowed by Telekom Austria) at the University of Vienna.

Before that, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Distributed Systems, University of Wuerzburg. He led the department's group on Future Network Architectures and Network Management until December 2007. From Feb. 2008 to July 2008, he worked as an Expert Researcher at the NICT (National Institute for Information and Communication Technology, Japan).

Kurt Tutschku has received a doctoral degree in Computer Science from University of Wuerzburg in 1999 and completed his Habilitation ("`State Doctoral Degree"') at the University of Wuerzburg in 2008. His main research interest include future generation communication networks, Quality-of-Experience, and the modeling and performance evaluation of future network control mechanisms and P2P overlay networks.