Tiago Alves received the “Licenciatura” and Ph.D degrees in Electrical and Computers Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He is currently a “Investigador FCT” researcher in the Optical Communications Group of Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon site, Portugal. Since 2018, he is also an Invited Assistant in Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura (ISTA) do ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He has contributed over the last ten years with more than 100 papers to international conferences and journals. He participated in several National and European Projects and has served as an international reviewer in top ranked Letter and Journals in the field of optical communication systems. His current areas of interest are fibre optic communication systems and networks.