I am currently an Associate Professor (Reader), with the Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, and the Director of its newly established “Wireless Systems Lab”. I am an active academic member of the 5G/6G Innovation Centre (5G/6GIC) where I lead the “Theory and Practice of Advanced Concepts in Wireless Communications” Work Area.I also lead the Physical Layer Open RAN development at the University of Surrey, and I am the Consortium and Project Lead of the “HiPer-RAN: Highly Intelligent, Highly Performing RAN” project, supported by the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) as part of the Open Networks Ecosystem Competition. I am also the Project Lead for the “NL-COMM: Practical, Non-Linear Processing for High Performing Communications” project, supported by Innovate UK and DSIT as part the "Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI): Future Telecommunications challenge", and aiming to bring MIMO non-linear physical layer processing into actual products.
As an academic, I have attracted as a Principal Investigator (PI) research grants of more than £11 million, with a big part of my research being market-driven and industry supported. In terms of teaching, I have been a recipient of the “Tony Jeans Inspirational Teaching Prize” of the University of Surrey, as well as a recipient of the "Teacher of the Year Award" for the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering. I am also an IEEE Senior Member and a recipient of the prestigious First Grant of the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
I received my PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where I was a member of the Wireless Systems Group. Since then, I have held research positions at the Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems at RWTH Aachen University, at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at University of California at Irvine and at the Computer Science Department at University College London (UCL). In October 2013 I joined the University of Surrey as a Lecturer.
I have also been a consultant for the Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology, where I also served as a National Delegate of Greece to the Joint Board on Communication Satellite Programmes of European Space Agency.
