Fred Steinhauser was born in Feldkirch, Austria, in 1960. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Vienna, where he obtained his diploma in 1986 and received a Dr. of Technical Sciences in 1991.
In 1998 he joined OMICRON, where he worked on several aspects of testing power system protection.  Since 2000 he works as a product manager with a focus on substation communication issues. Fred Steinhauser is a representative of OMICRON in the UCA International Users Group. He is member of WG10 and WG17 in the TC57 of the IEC working on the standard IEC 61850, and a member of CIGRÉ SC B5.

Thomas Schossig (IEEE) was born in Gotha, Germany, in 1970. He received his diploma (master degree) in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany) in 1998. He worked as a project engineer for control systems and as a team leader for protective relaying at VA TECH SAT in Germany from 1998 until 2005. Now he is working as a product manager for substation communication products at OMICRON electronics in Austria since the beginning of 2006.