Dr. Alessandro Raschella joined the School of Computer Science and Mathematics of LJMU as a Research Fellow in August 2015, as a lecturer in Networking and a member of the PROTECT Research Centre in August 2019, and as a senior lecturer in Computing and Networking in August 2022. He received BSc and MSc degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria (UNIRC), Italy, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and a PhD degree in Wireless Communications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2015.  His research interests include wireless network optimization, dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks, Software-Defined Networking, the Internet of Things (IoT), Wi-Fi networks, 5G and beyond, and heterogeneous networks. He has been a co-investigator as part of the Wi-5 research project funded by the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Framework Programme of the European Union and the projects Liverpool 5G and 5G Create funded by the Sensor City consortium of Liverpool. He has also been involved in the SALICE project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) and the OneFIT project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union. He has served as a Technical Program Committees (TPCs) member at several IEEE conferences, including IEEE ICC, WCNC, GLOBECOM, ISCC, and VTC, and as a reviewer for IEEE and non-IEEE conferences and peer-reviewed journals.