Themistoklis Charalambous received his B.A. and M.Eng. in Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridge University in 2005. He pursued his Ph.D. in the Control Laboratory, of the Engineering Department, Cambridge University in 2010. He worked as a research associate at Imperial College London, as a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, and as a post-doctoral researcher at the Automatic Control Lab of the School of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and at the Department of Signals and Systems at Chalmers University of Technology. He is currently as Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation at Aalto University. His research involves distributed coordination and control, distributed decision making, and control to various resource allocation problems in complex and networked systems.