Adonis Bogris was born in Athens. He received the B.S. degree in informatics, the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications, and the Ph.D. degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, in 1997, 1999, and 2005, respectively. His doctoral thesis was on all-optical processing by means of fiber-based devices. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Computer En- gineering at the University of West Attica, Greece. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 articles published in international scientific journals and conference proceedings and he has participated in plethora of EU and national research projects. His current research interests include high-speed all-optical transmission systems and networks, nonlinear effects in optical fibers, all-optical signal processing, neuromorphic photonics, mid-infrared photonics and cryptography at the physical layer.