Prof. Spyros Denazis has been a faculty member since 2004 in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics from the University of Ioannina, Greece, in 1987, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bradford, UK, in 1993. Between 1996-2004, he had worked in the telecommunications industry, for Intracom S.A, Greece and Hitachi Europe in Cambridge, UK and Sophia Antipolis, France. He currently leads an active research group, with a wide range of research activities and European research projects in the areas of 5G/6G, Experimental Testbeds (https://wiki.patras5g.eu/), NFV, SDN, Smart Cities (https://sense.city/ & https://safeamea.gr/) and Cybersecurity (https://issg.gr/). He is also the Scientific Coordinator of the newly established 5G Competence Centre π-ΝΕΤ (https://www.p-net.gr/) and the Project Coordinator of the EU Project Metacities (https://metacities-hub.com/).