Kurosh Bozorgebrahimi is Senior Advisor for Optical Networks at
Sikt, Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. For the SUBMERSE project, Kurosh leads the task group responsible for technology prototyping, validation, rollout, and deployment.
Benjamin Koch obtained the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Paderborn, Germany (2007) and stayed thereafter as a scientific assistant with its chair for
Optical Communication and High-Frequency Engineering. He obtained his doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in 2012. From 2010 to 2015 he was Director of Novoptel GmbH. He has (co-)authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.
Kristina Skarvang Vaskinn obtained her B.Eng. in Applied Physics from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (2011-2015). She later earned a MSc from NTNU, Department of Physics (2018-2020). She is currently a PhD candidate at NTNU, Department of Electronic Systems and the
SFI Centre for Geophysical Forecasting (CGF), focusing on the application of optical communication to geophysical sensing using state-of-polarisation (SOP) monitoring in subsea and terrestrial cables.