K. Nakkeeran (Fellow IoP, Fellow IET, Senior Member, IEEE, Senior Member, OSA) received a B. Eng. degree from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, in 1993, and M. Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. In 1999, he joined the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, where he was a postdoctoral fellow for ten months. In 1999, he became a research associate with the Department of Physics, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France. In 2002, he became a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. In 2005, he joined the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, U.K., where he has been a senior lecturer since 2011. His research interests include solitons, fiber lasers, fiber sensors, modelling and simulations of optical devices, long-haul optical fiber communications, and nonlinear science.