Dimitris Tsiokos (CEO) obtained his Bachelor (BEng) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton, UK in 2001, and his Masters (MSc) degree in Optics & Photonics from Imperial College London, UK in 2002. In 2007 he completed his PhD degree at the National Technical University of Athens. In 2009, Dr Tsiokos was a visiting researcher at the School of Engineering, University of Wisconsin, USA, while he also joined the Centre for Research and Technology (CERTH) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Since 2020 he is the CEO of Bialoom, a photonic biosensing technology startup that aims to accelerate diagnosis and therapy of acute infections. His technological interests spin around silicon photonics, plasmonics, biosensing and point of care diagnostics. Dimitris has authored and co‐authored more than 70 publications in peer‐reviewed journals and international conference proceedings, 4 book chapters and 3 patent filings.