**Meet the editor**

Professor George Dekoulis received a first class BEng (Hons) in Communications Engineering from De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, in 2001. He joined the Space and Planetary Physics Group at Lancaster University in 2001. He has received several research awards from STFC, UK and EPSRC, UK and the "IET Hudswell International Research Scholarship". He was awarded a Ph.D in 2007 in Space Engineering and Communications. He is currently a professor in Aeronautical and Space Engineering at Aerospace Engineering Institute, Cyprus. He was a professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. He has worked as Research Associate in Space Engineering and Technical Support Engineer on Space Systems at Lancaster University, and as R & D Aerospace Systems Design Engineer for Electromech, UK. He is researching and developing Aerospace Engineering Systems using state-of-the-art all-digital technologies.
