Erol Gelenbe (FACM, FIEEE, FIEE) holds the “Dennis Gabor Chair” at Imperial College, and his work in 2007-2009 has appeared in the Communications of the ACM, the ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM Trans. On Adaptive and Autonomous Systems, Neural Computation, Performance Evaluation, Physical Review, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, and The Computer Journal. He has authored four books written in English and French, two of which have appeared in Japanese and Korean translation, and over 120 articles in the best journals of Computer Science and of Applied Probability. His recent research includes path finding in very large and uncertain networks, network security, networked economics, wireless sensor networks, as well as theoretical biology and chemistry. His research is funded both by EPSRC, the EU FP7 Programmes and industry. He recently served on the Science and Technology Board and the Executive Board of the UK Defence Technology Centre on Data and Information Fusion, and he is a consultant to Oxford University Press. His experience includes being Department Head at Duke University (USA), Associate Dean at the University of Central Florida (USA), and chairing the Technical Advisory Board of the US Army’s Simulation and Training Command (1999-2003). His honours include: Commander of Merit of the Republic of Italy, Grand Officer of the Star of Italy, Officer Order of Merit of France and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques. Member of the French National Academy of Engineering, Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and Member of Academia Europaea. His prizes include the ACM Sigmetrics Lifetime Achievement Award (2008), the Science Award (1994) of the Parlar Foundation in Turkey, the Grand Prix France Telecom (1996) of the French Academy of Sciences, and “honoris causa” doctorates from the University of Rome II (1996), Bogaziçi University, Istanbul (2004), and the University of Liège, Belgium.