Prof. Alessio Zappone is a professor at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, where he got his Ph.D. in 2011. He serves as a senior editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, area editor for IEEE Communications Letter, Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Guest Editor for two special issues on the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He received several awards, e.g. the 2021 Marconi Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications and Signal processing Societies, 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2023 Fred Ellersick Award from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2024 Best Tutorial Paper Award from the IEEE Communication Society. He is the chair of the Special Interest Group REFLECTIONS, activated on metasurfaces and holographic surfaces by the SPCE Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, and the vice-chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.