Dr. Nikos Pleros is a Full Professor at the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Head of the Wireless and Photonics Systems and Networks (Win.Phos) research laboratory (http://winphos.web.auth.gr/ ) at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation at the same University. He obtained both his diploma and PhD from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National technical University of Athens in 2000 and 2004, respectively. His research interests extend along a broad range of photonic technologies and their use for communications, computing and sensing, including linear optics, photonic neural networks, optical RAMs, optical interconnects, silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuit technologies, optical switching, fiber-wireless 5G and 6G networks and biosensing. He has more than 500 archival journal publications and conference presentations including several invited contributions, while his work has been cited >8.800 times with an h-index of 47 (GS). He holds 7 US and 3 National Patents in the fields of photonic biosensing and neuromorphic photonics, having co-invented a series of new architectures for matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication circuits using integrated photonics. He has held positions of responsibility at several major conference committees including ECOC, OFC and SPIE Photonics West and has coordinated several FP7 and H2020 European projects, having raised in total a research funding of >15M Euro since 2010. Four of his PhD students were recognized among the top-10 PhD students worldwide in the field of photonics by receiving the annual IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship. Mr. Pleros was awarded the 15th prize in the Greek Mathematical Olympiad in 1993, the 25th prize in the Greek Chemistry Olympiad in 1994 and he also received the 2003 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship, the 2018 AUTH Excellence Award for his research project funding ID, the 2021 Greek Innovator Award and the 2021 AUTH Excellence Award for Innovation and Research. Since 2021, he is constantly among the top-2% of scientists according to the lists published on an annual basis by Stanford.