Dr. Botev is a Senior Research Scientist with a background in Computer Science and Media Studies. He is the founder and director of the VR/AR Lab at the University of Luxembourg (https://vrarlab.uni.lu) and founding member and co-lead of the Collaborative and Socio-Technical Systems (COaST) research group. His award-winning work revolves around fundamental aspects of mediated-reality systems and human-computer interaction. He and his team conduct crossdisciplinary research in various high-profile national and international projects, developing and exploring immersive extended-reality experiences, context-aware applications, and distributed virtual environments. Before his tenure at the Department of Computer Science (DCS) of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) at the University of Luxembourg, he was at City University, London (UK), and the University of Trier (Germany). Dr. Botev is a member of various consortia, special interest groups, and committees, including the steering committees of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) and the ACM International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE). He has held editorial positions in high-ranking international journals such as Complexity, MIT Press Artificial Life, and Frontiers in Computer Science, Psychology, and Robotics and AI.