Christian Senger (IEEE S'05-M'11) is an Akademischer Oberrat at the Institute of Telecommunications at the University of Stuttgart . He received a diploma degree (M.Sc. equiv.) in Computer Science from Universität Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ) in 2006 and a Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D. equiv.) in Electrical Engineering from Ulm University in 2011. From May 2013 to October 2015, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Communications Group at the University of Toronto . His main field of interest is error control coding with its modern applications in fiber-optical high-speed networks, distributed data storage, and flash memories.