Nikolaos Uzunoglu was born in Constantinople, Turkey, in 1951. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University in 1973. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Essex, U.K., in 1974 and 1976, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and Head of the Microwave and Fibre Optics Laboratory. His research interests include electromagnetic theory, microwaves, fibre optics, telecommunications, biological process simulations, in silico oncology, and biomedical engineering. In 1981, he received the International G. Marconi Award in Telecommunications, and he is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia.