Martin Maier is an Associate Professor with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), at the University of Quebec, Canada. He received his MSc and PhD degrees both with distinctions (summa cum laude) from Technical University Berlin, Germany. He was a Postdoc Fellow at MIT and a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University. His research interests include the design, control, and performance evaluation of next-generation optical networks and their evolutionary WDM upgrade strategies. Dr Maier is also the author of the book Metropolitan Area WDM Networks - An AWG Based Approach.
