Alexandros Pitilakis (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 2005, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from ENST (Telecom) Paris, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUTH, in 2013. He did an internship with the Alcatel-Lucent Optical Transmission Systems Group, Marcoussis, France. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with AUTH, affiliated with the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), and teaches undergraduate optics, photonics, and antennas and propagation courses with the University of Western Macedonia. His research interests include theoretical and computational electromagnetics, waveguides, antennas and propagation (optical, THz, RF), metamaterials, nonlinear optics, integrated photonics, plasmonics, and graphene. He is a member of Optica.