Alon Ascoli (Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from University College Dublin in 2006. He has been holding a tenure faculty position at TU Dresden since 2018. He develops system-theoretic methods for modeling, analyzing, and designing bio-inspired circuits. In April 2017, he conferred the habilitation title of Associate Professor in fundamentals of electrical engineering from the Italian Ministry of Education. He has been the President of the IEEE Cellular Neural Networks and Array Computing Technical Committee from 2019 to 2021. He has been the President of the IEEE Cellular Neural Networks and Memristor Array Computing Technical Committee since 2021. He is a Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems Technical Committee. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chua Memristor Center (CMC). He was honoured with Best Paper Awards from the International Journal on Circuit Theory and Applications in 2007 and from the International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies in 2020. He was the Chair of the 7th Memristor and Memristive Symposium held in Catania in 2021.