D. J. Frantzeskakis is a Full Professor in the Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research work focuses on nonlinear waves and solitons, with applications to various physical contexts, including Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), nonlinear optics and photonics, metamaterials, plasmas, acoustics, water waves, and others. His research relies on the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations and differential-difference equations by means of various analytical approximations, such as perturbation and asymptotic methods, as well as nonlinear dynamics techniques. Many of his theoretical results have initiated many important experimental projects (run by several groups in the U.S. and Germany) concerning nonlinear waves, solitons and vortices in BECs and optics. These projects have verified many of theoretical predictions reported in his papers, while he was a co-author of several works reporting these experimental results. He is an author or co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, including 3 “highly cited” (Web of Science) ones, 5 invited review papers, and 12 book chapters. He has also been a co-editor or a co-author of 5 books, including two volumes published by Springer and two monographs, in SIAM and Oxford University Press. He has also received the “Nikolaos K. Artemiadis Award” on Mathematical Analysis of the Academy of Athens. Professor Frantzeskakis has more than 15,600 citations and h-index = 62 (Google Scholar).