Yan Grunenberger (Cahors, France, 1980) has obtained his engineering degree from the Grenoble INP university (France) in 2004 in Telecommunications and Transmitting systems. After that he joined the Drakkar research team of the LIG Laboratory (Grenoble, France) in 2004, conducting a PhD in computer science on cross-layer optimizations, working on implementations of access methods as well as wireless network virtualization until 2008.

Before joining the CTTC on March 2010 he worked in 2009 as a research engineer in a local french startup compagny to work on mobile phone software development as well as sensors usage on mobile phone.

His personal interests are primary hardware and software integration, wireless systems architecture as well as networking protocols.