Dimitrios Kosmanos was born in Larissa, Greece, in February 1989. He received his Diploma and an MSc degree from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, in 2013. He also received a PhD degree at the same university in 2020. Before his current position, he was a fellow researcher with the CERTH department of Volos and a research assistant for De Montfort University (UK). He is interested in optimized video transmission techniques in wireless cooperative networks. His current research interests are techniques in the physical layer about improving the quality of wireless communication in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), as well as improved cross-layer detection and methods for suppressing jamming threats in the 802.11p wireless protocol for VANETs, specifically for autonomous vehicles. He is also the author or co-author of over 10 technical papers published in international conferences and journals. Lastly, he has been a TCP member in “SSESS - Symposium on Software Engineering for Smart Systems 2019, 2020” conferences and a reviewer in reputable scientific journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Access, etc.