Evangelos Markakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1980. In 2003, he obtained a bachelor's degree in applied informatics & Multimedia from the Technological Educational Institute of Crete in Greece, a master's degree in data communication systems from Brunel University, London, 2005 and a doctorate from the Information & Communication Systems Engineering department of the University of the Aegean in 2014.In 2003, he began working for the Research & Development of Telecommunications Systems Laboratory "PASIPHAE" at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete and the Center for Technological Research of Crete. In 2009, he was hired as a Network Architect and Level "Three" SysNet Administrator at the largest hospital on Crete, "Pagni" Hospital. In 2016, he relocated to the Technological Educational Institute of Crete to assume a permanent position as a laboratory instructor. In 2023, he was elected to the position of assistant professor with an expertise in wireless and broadband networks. Evangelos has participated in at least 40 EU FP5/FP6/FP7/Horizon2020-funded IST/ICT/Health/Security projects, and he is the Principal Investigator of the PASIPHAE laboratory at the Hellenic Mediterranean University. His current research projects for his organisation are H2020-SHAPES, H2020-5DAEROSAFE, Horizon Mine.IO, Horizon Cobalt, and Horizon PQ-REACT. Evangelos is the Technical Coordinator of the Horizon -TRUSTEE Data Federation of European Data Spaces project. His primary areas of expertise consist of Fog Computing & Networking, Emergency Communications, Distributed Systems & P2P Applications, Design of Large-Scale Heterogeneous Networks, Network Management & Virtualisation Techniques, Including SDN/NFV Concepts. He has published over 100 journal articles, conference proceedings, and books with peer review. He is a member of the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) and serves as co-chair of the IEEE Public Safety Initiative for Testbeds, and as a contracted expert for EU Horizon Evaluations, ENISA, and ETSI.