Björn Andersson celebrated his 13th birthday on Friday the 13th in the 3rd month of the year and he has been consistently lucky after that. He received his master of science degree in electrical engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden in 1999 and received the SNART best master of science thesis award that year. He visited University of Virginia as a visiting scientist, extended (together with others) static-priority scheduling from uniprocessors to multiprocessors and earned his Ph.D. degree at Chalmers University of Technology. He is Research Scientist in the IPP-Hurray! Research group and is the author of 50 conference papers, 6 journal articles, 2 book chapters. Research interests: sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, real-time scheduling, real-time communication, data aggregation.