Konstantinos A. Avramidis was born in Athens, Greece, on April 29, 1971. He received the Dipl.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, in 1998 and 2006, respectively. During 1997–1998, he was occupied with national service. From 1999 to 2006, he was a Research Assistant with the Electron Beam, Plasma, and Nonlinear Optics Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens.