Alexandros Pitilakis (Senior Member, IEEE) received his diploma and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 2005 and 2013, respectively. He holds an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the ENST (Telecom) Paris, 2007, including an internship at the Alcatel-Lucent Optical Transmission Systems group in Marcoussis, France. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in AUTH, affiliated also with the University of Western Macedonia (UoWM) and the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), and has taught undergraduate optics, photonics and antennas & propagation courses in UoWM and AUTH between 2016-2023. His research interests include theoretical and computational electromagnetics, waveguides and antennas (optical, THz, RF), metamaterials, nonlinear optics, integrated photonics, plasmonics, graphene. He is a member of Optica.