Benjamin Weiss studied communication science & phonetics, educational studies and Scandinavian studies at the universities of Bonn, Trondheim and Berlin. After his graduation in 2002, he was with the “Graduiertenkolleg” at the Linguistics department at Humboldt University Berlin, doing his dissertation on speech tempo and pronunciation. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2008. He joined the Quality and Usability Lab of the TU Berlin in January 2007, working on speech transmission quality, multimodal HCI, and speakers’ likability. During that time, he was also Visiting Fellow at the MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, and at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has co-authored more than 50 reviewed papers and received his habilitation in Human-Computer Interaction in 2019. Benjamin Weiss is currently senior researcher at audEERING.