Markos Anastasopoulos is an Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Previously he was a senior researcher at the High Performance Networks Group of the University of Bristol, UK. His main research interests lie in the areas of optical and wireless communications networks, mobile and distributed computing, network design and management. He is an author/co-author of more than 100 papers in peer reviewed international journal and conference proceeding. He has awarded scholarships by the Kyprianides, Eugenides, Thomaides and Propondis foundations. He is also the recipient of the best doctoral dissertation award across all engineering schools of NTUA (2009) and the best paper award at the 17th IEEE/IFIP Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) conference (2013).