Felix Wald received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (2019) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2021). Since 2022 he is working on his PhD in the research group "Real-Time System Integration" and in the "Power Hardware-in-the-Loop" laboratory at the Institute of Technical Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. He is an active member of the "IEEE PES Taskforce on Solid-State Transformer Integration in Distribution Grids" and leads the "Grid Services and Features" chapter. His research interests include power hardware-in-the-loop validation and techno-economic analysis of power electronic transformers and asynchronous grids.