Giovanni Geraci is a Principal Research Scientist at Telefonica, an Associate Professor at UPF Barcelona, and serves as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He was previously with Nokia Bell Labs and holds a dozen patents on wireless technologies. He received the IEEE Communications Theory Early Achievement Award (2023), the IEEE ComSoc EMEA Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2018), and Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom (2022) and PIMRC (2019).