Stephan Pfletschinger has received his Master and Ph.D. degree from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) in 1997 and 2003. From 1997 to 2003 he was with the Institute of Telecommunications at the University of Stuttgart as a reserach and teaching assistant, working on multicarrier modulation and digital TV. For his Ph.D. thesis he received the Rudolf-Urtel and the Anton-und-Klara-Roeser award.

In March 2003 he joined the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC) in Barcelona where he is involved in several projects on systems beyond 3G and radio access technologies. He has served as task leader in the European projects WINNER and WINNER II, dealing with beyond 3G mobile communications and he is currently involved as a workpackage leader in the European project DaVinci.

His primary research interests include iterative receiver algorithms, multicarrier systems and adaptive link adaptation.