Dr. Elias Iosif is Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Innovation, University of Nicosia (UNIC). Dr. Iosif also serves as Associate Head at the same department, as well as scientific lab co-leader at the Distributed Ledgers Research Centre, Institute For the Future, UNIC. He is teaching at the MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currency offered by UNIC, which is the first-degree programme globally on blockchain. Also, he is participating in several EC-funded projects focused on blockchain technologies. Dr. Iosif has a PhD degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering. His areas of expertise include blockchain and metaverse, machine learning, and human language technologies (natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems). Also, he has experience in the respective startup ecosystem. He has au-thored/co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Dr. Iosif is the co-author of two award winning re-search works focusing on text sentiment analysis and consensus algorithms.