Prof. Alkiviadis A. Chatzopoulos (Hatzopoulos) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his Degree in Physics (with honours), his Master Degree in Electronics and his Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980, 1983 and 1989, respectively. He was granted a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) during all four years of studies in the Physics Department (1976-1980) and for his PhD research in Greece (three years). He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1981, where now he is a Full Professor. Since 2002 he has been elected as the Director of the Electronics Laboratory of the ECE Dept. He was also being elected as Associate Teaching Personnel of the Hellenic Open University, Department of Informatics, for twelve years (2004-2017). His research interests include modelling, design and testing of integrated circuits and systems (analog, mixed-signal, high-frequency), three dimensional Integrated Circuits (3D ICs), electronic communication circuits, thin-film transistors, instrumentation electronics, Bioelectronics systems, Space electronics-applications. He is actively involved in educational and research projects. Among these, since 2019 he is the Team leader Professor and Systems Engineer of the student team “SpaceDot” of Aristotle University, which designs, develops, and manufactures the “AcubeSAT” nanosatellite under the support of the European Space Agency (ESA) Educational Office in the frame of the ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! 3 (FYS!3) educational program. He is also the scientific responsible for the “PeakSat-Optical Communications CubeSat, AUTh” project, started in 2023 and financially supported by ESA, in the frame of The Greek Cubesats In-Orbit Validation Projects. He is the author or co-author of more than 180 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings and three book chapters in international textbooks. He has also been the co-editor of an international book on “Heterogeneous Cyber Physical Systems of Systems”. He has been granted a European and American patent. He has acted as reviewer in various International Scientific Journals and International conferences, and he has been involved in the organizing committee or organized various special sessions and national/international conferences. He has served as session Chairman in many International IEEE conferences. Prof. Hatzopoulos has been the official representative of Greece, invited by the Italian Institute of International Commerce (Istituto nazionale per il Commercio Estero), in the International ROMA Electronics Forum 20-22 October 2008 in Rome. He has been a member (2010-2018) of the Belgian Research Foundation Committee (FWO Expert panel WT7) for National (Flanders) Grants and Project evaluations. He has given many lectures on his research topics in various Universities. He has been a visiting Professor at Michigan State University, MI, USA, (Feb. - July 1995), a visiting Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (Feb. - July 2004), and a visiting Professor at University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) (Jan. - July 2016). He is a Life Senior Member of IEEE and he has served as the IEEE Greece CASS-SSCS joint Chapter Chair from 2010 to 2020;since 2020 he is the Treasurer of the Chapter. e-mail : alkis(at)ece.auth.gr url: https://ece.auth.gr/en/staff/alkiviadis-chatzopoulos/