Dr. Nikolaos K. Lyras was born in Kalamata, Greece in 1991. He received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Dr. Engineering Degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in February 2015 and July 2019, respectively. His PhD Thesis concerned the system level engineering of optical satellite communication systems. He has been involved in 7 European Space Agency and 2 European Union funded research projects. Nikolaos has published more than 30 contributions in international refereed journals and conferences. He has been awarded with George & Viktoria Karelia Foundation Scholarship for his PhD studies, in 2016. His experience includes optical communication systems design, system level engineering for wireless and satellite communication networks, channel modeling and data analysis among others.