George N. Karystinos (Diploma, University of Patras, Greece, 1997 - Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, 2003) is a Professor and, since Sept. 2021, the Dean of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. From 2019 to 2021, he served as an expert in the Programme Committee of ERC, FET, and MSCA within the European Commission's Horizon2020 Framework Programme and since 2021 he is a National Representative to the Horizon Europe Programme Committee for MSCA. His published research has received six IEEE journal/conference paper awards and includes innovations in communication theory and signal processing with emphasis on signal design, receiver optimization, channel coding, and physical-layer security.