Charis Mesaritakis received the B.S. degree in Informatics, from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in micro electronics from the same department, and in 2011 he received the Ph.D degree in the field of quantum dot devices and systems for next generation optical networks. In 2012 he was awarded a European scholarship for postdoctoral studies (Marie Curie FP7-PEOPLE IEF) in the joint research facilities of Alcatel-Thales-Lucent in Paris-France. He has actively participated as a research engineer/technical supervisor in more than ten EU-funded research programs (FP6-FP7-H2020) targeting excellence in the fields of photonic neuromorphic computing, cyber-physical security, and photonic integration. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean, Greece. He is the author and coauthor of more than 70 papers in highly cited peer reviewed international journals.