Giovanni Geraci is an Assistant Professor and Junior Leader Fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain). He earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales (Australia) in 2014. He gained industrial innovation experience at Nokia Bell Labs (Ireland), where he was a Research Scientist in 2016-2018. His background also features appointments at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore) in 2014-2015, the University of Texas at Austin (USA) in 2013, Supelec (France) in 2012, and Alcatel-Lucent (Italy) in 2009. He has co-authored 50+ IEEE publications with 1000+ citations, and is co-inventor of a dozen filed patent families on wireless communications and networking. He is deeply involved in the research community, serving as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communications Letters, and as a workshop or special session co-organizer at IEEE Globecom’17, Asilomar’18, and IEEE ICC’19. He is also a frequent speaker and his contributions include a workshop keynote at IEEE PIMRC’18, an industry seminar at IEEE ICC'19, and tutorials at IEEE WCNC’18, IEEE ICC’18, and IEEE Globecom’18. Giovanni is the recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle-East & Africa 2018.