Tim Netzer is a professor of applied algebra at the University of Innsbruck. He received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Konstanz. His research is in real algebra and geometry, with connections to optimization, functional analysis, and quantum information theory. He has worked at the Universities of Saskatchewan, Leipzig, and Dresden.
Daniel Plaumann is a professor of algebra and its applications at Dortmund University. He received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Konstanz. His research is in real and classical algebraic geometry. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.