Professor Theo Tryfonas holds the position of Chair of Infrastructure Systems and Urban Innovation at the School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol. He is a computer scientist by background working in the fields of Smart Cities and the Internet of Things. He is interested in environmental sensing and urban data collection from a variety of domains including intelligent buildings, smart energy systems, and micromobility platforms, as well as the privacy and technology policy implications in that context. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (FRSA) and a Chartered Fellow of the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT (FBCS CITP). He holds a PhD and an MSc degree in Information Systems from Athens University of Economics and Business, and read Computer Science (BSc) at the University of Crete.