Dr. Cristian Antonelli is an Associate Professor with the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of L’Aquila, Italy, and the director of INCIPICT’s fibre- optic test-bed. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of L’Aquila in 2006. During his graduate studies, he worked on the “Hinge Model” for the time dynamics of PMD within a collaboration with AT&T Labs. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology from 2014 to 2020 and since 2020 he is serving as a Topical Editor for Optics Letters. He is a Fellow of OSA (class 2020), and Senior Member of the IEEE.