In memoriam: Theodoros D. Tsiboukis

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Prof. Theodoras D. Tsiboukis - EM scholar, friend and colleague of ours and of many others in URSI, IEEE, and around the world - passed away on April 11, 2021. He was born in Larisa, Thessaly, Greece, in 1948. He received the Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1971, and the Doctor Engineering in 1981 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece. From 1981 to 1982, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Southampton, England, as a Senior Research Fellow. In 1982, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DECE) of AUTH, until 2015 when he retired as Professor Emeritus. During his tenure at DECE-AUTH, he served in many administrative positions, including 1993–1998 as Director of the Division of Telecommunications at the DECE, and from 1997–1998 as Chair of DECE. He was the Founder (1989) and the Head of the Applied and Computational Electromagnetics (ACEM) Laboratory until 2015.