Chryssis Georgiou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus. He holds a Ph.D. (December 2003) and M.Sc. (May 2002) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut and a B.Sc. (June 1998) in Mathematics from the University of Cyprus. His research interests span the Theory and Practice of Fault-tolerant Distributed and Parallel Computing with a focus on Algorithms and Complexity. He has published more than 90 articles in journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings in his area of study and he has co-authored two books on Robust Distributed Cooperative Computing. He has served on several Program Committees of conferences in Distributed and Parallel Computing and on the Steering Committees of DISC (2008–2010, 2010–2012) and ACM PODC (2014–2015). In 2015 he served as the General Chair of PODC 2015, and in 2017 he served as the Track Program Committee co-Chair (Stabilizing Systems: Theory and Practice Track) of SSS 2017. In 2018 and 2019 he was the General co-Chair of the workshop ApPLIED 2018 and 2019 (co-located with PODC 2018 and DISC 2019, respectively), while in 2020 he will be co-chairing the PC committee of NETYS 2020. As of January 2018, he is on the Editorial Board of Information Processing Letters (subject area: Distributed Computing). His research has been funded by the University of Cyprus, the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation, and the European Commission.