Roman Pulgrabja is a Ph.D. student in the Cooperative Autonomous Systems (CAS) group at KIT. He received a B.Sc. in Applied Computer Science from Heidelberg University (Germany) and a M.Sc in Computer Science from Leibniz University Hannover. Before joining CAS he worked as research student at Robert Bosch GmbH in Hildesheim. His field of research is in communication protocols for automotive (V2X) and maritime vessel (AIS/VDES) applications with the aim to improve traffic flow and safety of operation