Costas Chaikalis was born in Athens, Greece, on March 1973. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1995 from Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Lamia, Greece. He also received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK in 1999 and 2003, respectively. During his doctoral studies he worked as a Research Assistant for Mobile Virtual Center of Excellence (Mobile VCE), Terminals Group, UK. Dr Chaikalis is the author or co-author of about 50 technical papers published in international conferences, journals and book chapters. His research interests are in all areas of mobile communications but especially in forward error correction coding, reconfigurable (software radio) architectures, cross layer architectures and V2V applications. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, School of Technology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.