Nikolce Stefanoski studied Mathematics and Computer Science with Telecommunications as field of application at the University of Hannover. He received his Dipl.-Math. degree from the University of Hannover in 2003. His Studienarbeit (junior thesis) was dealing with 'Wavelet Based Compression of Digital Images'. The Fachbereich für Informatik of the University of Hannover awarded him a prize for best diploma thesis in the field of computer science. He wrote his diploma thesis about 'Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms'. Since January 2004 he has been working toward a PhD degree at the Institut für Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung of the University of Hannover. His research interests are coding of time-varying 3D geometry, signal processing and stochastics.