Rafael F. Schaefer (S’08–M’12–SM’17) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2007, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität München, Germany, in 2012. From 2007 to 2010, he was a Research and Teaching Assistant with the Technische Universität Berlin and from 2010 to 2013, with the Technische Universität München. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Princeton University. Since 2015, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Technische Universität Berlin. Among his publications is the recent book Information Theoretic Security and Privacy of Information Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He was a recipient of the VDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize in 2013. He received the best paper award of the German Information Technology Society in 2016. He was one of the exemplary reviewers of the IEEE COMMUNICATION LETTERS in 2013. He is a Member of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS OF COMMUNICATIONS.