Krzysztof Gierłowski received his Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the Faculty of Electronics, Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), Poland, in 2018. He is author or co-author of more than 80 scientific papers and reviewer for a number of conferences and journals.

Krzysztof Gierłowski took part in major IT-oriented projects, including: EU-funded Polish Future Internet Engineering initiative, PL-LAB2020 Infrastructural project, netBaltic initiative and NATO RTG-147 Military Applications of Internet of Things. He is a current member of NATO Science and Technology Organization and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

His scientific and research interests include cloud infrastructures, Internet of Things and Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), wireless local and metropolitan area systems, complex wireless network architectures, e-learning systems, network/application security and distributed computing.