Dr. Aleiferis received his Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras (2011) and his PhD on Plasma Physics from the University of Patras and the University of Grenoble (2016). His PhD thesis, on the experimental study of hydrogen negative ion production, was jointly supervised and realised in the High Voltage Laboratory of the University of Patras and the Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology of CNRS (France). Since 2016 he works, initially for the Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), and later for the Fusion Technology Group (FTG) in the Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences, Technology, Energy & Safety (INRASTES) of NCSR Demokritos in the framework of the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy (EUROfusion). Since 2018 he has been seconded from NCSR Demokritos to the Joint European Torus (Oxford, UK) working on Fusion Diagnostics and Plasma Operations