Dr. Marc Körner joined the ESnet network automation group in October 2019. Prior to that, he worked as a lead engineer at a Bay Area startup, building SDN-based office networks in the network access provider domain. Before that, he spent two years on a postdoctoral fellowship at the UC Berkeley Netsys Lab group, the ICSI, and the EIT Digital Silicon Valley hub. He received a Dr.-Ing. degree (PhD equivalent) from the faculty of EECS at TU Berlin in 2015 for his dissertation on Software Defined Networking based Data Center Services while working for the Complex and Distributed IT Systems department.