Mehdi Alouini received the M.S. degree in optics and photonics form the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France, in 1997. After having graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique, Orsay, France, in 1997, he received the Ph.D. degree in laser physics from the University of Rennes in 2001. He was with Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau, France, as a Research Scientist from 2001 to 2009. Since then, he joined the University of Rennes 1, France, as an Associate Professor then a Full Professor, where he led, up to 2017, the Optics and Photonics Department, Institut de Physique de Rennes. He is currently the Deputy Director of Institut FOTON and, in parallel, scientific advisor for Thales. His research activities cover microwave and THz photonics, laser physics, and advanced imaging. Prof. Alouini is a member of the European Optical Society, IEEE Photonics and the Optical Society of America. He serves on the board of the French Optical Society.