Apostolos Malatras received the Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Piraeus, Greece, the MSc degree in Information Systems from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, and the PhD degree in networking from the University of Surrey, UK. He is currently a Lecturer and Post-doctoral Fellow with the Pervasive and Artificial Intelligence research group, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Prior to this position, he was a Senior Research Engineer with Thales Research and Technology, Berkshire, UK. He is the author and co-author of more than 30 research papers. His research interests focus on pervasive computing and communications, context awareness, network management, mobile ad hoc networks, service oriented architectures, wireless sensor networks, and communications middleware.