Avraam A. Konstantinidis received his diploma in electrical engineering in 1996 as well as his PhD in 2000, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). In 2003 he joined the General Department of AUTh as a lecturer and later as an assistant professor, and he is currently an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Department of AUTh and also acts as the director of the Laboratory of Engineering Mechanics of AUTh (http://etem.civil.auth.gr/en/). His research interests involve nonlocal modeling of material behavior at various scales (macro-, micro-, and nanoscales), multiscale simulations, and experiments for material characterization at the micro- and nanoscales. He has published more than 40 journal articles as well as 14 proceedings articles, and his work has received more than 270 citations and an h-index of 10 (SCOPUS).