Dipl. Ing (Univ.) Gerhard Stoll studied communications engineering with focus on IT and cybernetics at the universities of Stuttgart and Munich. In 1984 he joined the IRT - the research centre of the public broadcasters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland – where he was in charge of the development of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Audio standard.

Mr. Stoll was/is also a member of different standardisation groups, such as MPEG, DAB, DVB, ITU-R and EBU. For his contributions in the area of low bit-rate audio coding, he received the Prof. Cremer Award from the German Acoustical Society, the Fellowship Award of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and in October 2000 the Emmy-Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. As senior engineer, he is now in charge of Audio for Radio and TV and technical co-ordinator of European IST-projects dealing with Rich Media Interactive TV, including interactivity for mobile TV, such as SAMBITS, SAVANT, GMF4iTV and porTiVity.