Dr. Evangelos A. Kosmatos received his Dipl-Ing. degree and his Ph.D. Degree from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICCS) of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2002 and 2008 respectively. He has participated in several EU projects (AQUILA, ENAMORADO, SMS, INCASA, STRONGEST, IDEALIST, FANTASTIC-5G, SPEED-5G, ONE5G, 5G EVE, 5G-TOURS, 5G-ROUTES, DAEMON). His research interests include 5G, B5G networks, optical networks (EPON, GPON, WDM-PON), testing and validation frameworks, prototyping activities, QoS in heterogeneous networks, sensors / actuators networks (IoT), middleware and distributed technologies; he has 20 publications in international journals and 35 publications in international conferences related to these fields.