Constantinos Vlachos was born in Athens, Greece in 1971. He received the B.Eng. degree in applied electronics from the Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece in 1993, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in automatic control systems from Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. in 1995 and 2000, respectively. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Research Assistant with the Control Systems Research Group, School of Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. He then joined the BioComputing and Computational Biology Research Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, U.K., where he worked as a Research Assistant from 2001 to 2004. Since 2010, he has been an Electronics Engineer and Research Scientist with the Weapon Systems R&D Electronics Laboratory, Naval Weapons Directorate, Salamis Naval Base, Hellenic Navy, Greece. His current duties include the design and development of new weapon systems for the Hellenic Navy, as well as the upgrade and maintenance of existing ones. He also teaches at Hellenic Navy’s Petty Officers’ Academy. Dr. Vlachos’s research interests are in the areas of adaptive and non-linear control systems theory, robust and optimal control, global optimization methods, and electromagnetic wave theory. He has designed numerous military and commercial electronic devices, mainly in the field of feedback control systems. He is an avid radio amateur (SV1PDA) and RF experimenter.