Emmanouil Kriezis was born in Thessaloniki in 1968. He received his diploma in Electrical Engineering and his Doctorate degree from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. His doctoral thesis focused on the development of full vector beam propagation methods for light wave propagation in integrated optical devices. In 1998 he joined the University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, initially as an EPSRC post-doctoral researcher. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship to study light propagation in complex anisotropic media. In 2002 he was elected Assistant Professor and since May 2014 he has been Professor in Microwave & Optical Communications at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.