IMAN TAVAKKOLNIA is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering division at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of the energy-efficiency of current and future telecommunication systems, and lies at the frontier of communication theory, advanced materials, signal processing, and optical communications. Iman also works on low-complexity, optical space communication systems for small satellites. He is a coinvestigator on two EPSRC Future Communication Hubs in the UK (TITAN and HASC) as well as the project REASON under the Future Open Networks Research Challenge grant, funded by the UK’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). He was a working group member of the European COST Action, CA19111 NEWFOCUS, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters. Iman has been a co-chair of the optical wireless communication (OWC) workshops in WCNC 2023 and 2024, and GLOBECOM 2024, a local organising committee member of ECOC 2023, and TPC member of several workshops and conferences. Iman obtained his PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2018. He was a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh until 2020 and then at the University of Strathclyde until September 2021, before being appointed as the Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellow (Lecturer) until February 2024.