Theodoros A. Tsiftsis (S'02, M'04, SM'10) received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2006. He is a Professor with the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Thessaly, Greece. His research interests fall into the broad areas of communication theory and wireless communications with emphasis on wireless communications theory, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, optical wireless communications, and physical layer security.

Dr. Tsiftsis served in the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Communications Letters. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Prof. Tsiftsis was appointed as an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer for two terms (2018-2022).