Niels Kuster was born in Olten, Switzerland in June 1957. He received the master's degree in electrical engineering and doctoral degree in technical science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1993, he was elected as Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1999 he was appointed as Director of the Foundation and Laboratories for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT'IS), Switzerland (www.itis.ethz.ch). In 1992 he was Invited Professor at the Electromagnetics Laboratory of Motorola Inc. in Florida, USA and in 1998 at the Metropolitan University of Tokyo, Japan.

His research interest is currently focused on the area of reliable and safe on/in-body wireless communications and related topics. This includes:

• measurement technology.
• computational electrodymanics for evaluation of close near-fields in complex environments (e.g. handheld or body-mounted transceivers, living-work environments, etc.).
• exposure assessments.
• development of exposure setups and quality control for bioexperiments evaluating interaction mechanisms, therapeutic effects as well as potential health risks.
• wireless life support systems.

Professor Kuster is the author of over 150 publications (books, journals and proceedings) mainly on measurement techniques, computational electromagnetics, dosimetry and exposure assessments as well as on bioexperiments. He is a member of several standardization bodies and has consulted several government agencies around the globe on the issue of the safety of mobile communications. He also serves on the boards of various scientific commissions, societies and journals.