Nik Bessis received his BA from the T.E.I. Athens (1991) and his MA and PhD degrees from De Montfort University, UK in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He is a full Professor (2010), and since 2015, the Head (Chair) of the Department of Computer Science at Edge Hill University, UK. In 2021, he was seconded to the Faculty as a Senior Advisor for the Digital Strategy and Transnational Education. He is a QAA expert reviewer for UK, Cyprus and Greece, a QAA UK Subject Benchmark Statement for Computing advisory group member, a fellow of HEA, BCS and a senior member of IEEE. His research is on social graphs for network and big data analytics as well as developing data push and resource provisioning services in IoT, FI and inter-clouds for a number of settings including disaster management. He is involved in a number of funded research and commercial projects worth over £15m. Prof Bessis has published over 350 works and won 4 best papers awards. He is an editor of several books and an editor-in-chief of a refereed international journal.