Dr. Fred Steinhauser studied Electrical Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology.
In 1998 he joined OMICRON, first working on testing power system protection, but soon focusing on IEC 61850. Since 2014 he is entirely dedicated to Power Utility Communication, serving as IEC 61850 expert and Digital Substation Evangelist.
At IEC, Fred Steinhauser is a member of TC57 WG10 contributing to IEC 61850, and of TC95. He is one of the main authors of the UCA Implementation Guideline for Sampled Values (9-2LE). In CIGRE, he is active within SC B5. He also contributed to the synchrophasor standard IEEE C37.118.