Sebastian Lehnhoff is a Full Professor for Energy Informatics at the University of Oldenburg. He received his doctorate at the TU Dortmund University in 2009. Prof. Lehnhoff is a member of the executive board of the OFFIS Institute for Information Technology and speaker of its Energy R&D division. He is speaker of the section „Energy Informatics“ within the German Informatics Society (GI), assoc. editor of the IEEE Computer Society’s Computing and Smart Grid Special Technical Community as well as an active member of numerous committees and working groups focusing on ICT in future Smart Grids. He is an honorary professor of the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland. Prof. Lehnhoff is CTO of openKONSEQUENZ e.G. – registered co-operative industry association for the development of modular open source SCADA/EMS. He serves as an Executive Committee Member of the ACM Emerging Interest Group on Energy Systems and Informatics (EIG-ENERGY), Steering Committee member of the EIG flagship conference E-Energy, Europe’s DACH+ Energy Informatics conference and as a founding Board Member of the SpringerOpen journal on Energy Informatics. Prof. Lehnhoff is author of over 150 refereed and peer-reviewed scientific publications.