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 was born in Athens, Greece in 1974. He currently lives
with his family in Anatoli, Ioannina and he is
Assistant Professor with subject: "Telecommunications with
emphasis on signal propagation" in Electronics Telecommunications and
Applications Lab of Physics Department of the University of Ioannina.
He received the B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of
Ioannina, Greece, in 1997 and the M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications
from the same University in 2000. His Master Thesis was entitled
"Real Data Transmission Network". He has a PhD degree in the field
of Software Defined Radios and Smart Antennas from the University of
Ioannina. He brings nearly twenty years of research experience in the field
of telecommunications and Electronics. His research experience starts in 1997
with participation in several research programmes
funded by the European community. From 2000 to 2004 he was a doctoral scholar
at the Mobile Communications Laboratory of the Institute of Informatics and
Telecommunications of N.C.S.R. "Demokritos",
Athens, Greece. In Feb 2007 he joined Emphasis Telematics S.A as a R&D
Project Manager in the field of Regional Risk, Fleet Tracking and Management,
Remote Monitoring and Telematics, as well as Supply Chain Execution. From
2007 to 2008 and under Vasilis Christofilakis' supervision, several ICT
innovation projects, such as "Forest Fire Risk Management Information
System (FFRMIS)" and "Fleet Management System, HGCCo-Lafarge
Group, Project 120707" have been successfully completed. From 2008 to
2014 he was employed as a Senior Researcher by Siemens Enterprise
Communications. As a Senior Researcher, in Siemens Enterprise
Communications, Dr. Vasilis Christofilakis worked in complex and pioneering
projects (eg. Magellan) in the field of unified
communications. His research interests include mainly Software Defined Radios
and Cooperative Network Systems, Smart Antennas - MIMO, Digital Signal
Processing, Signal Propagation, Signal attenuation due to precipitation,
Schumann resonance measurements, Object - Oriented Approaches for Wireless
System. He has authored or co-authored over 80 journals, book chapters,
conference papers, and technical reports on these topics. He has served as an
Editor and Reviewer for several Scientific Journals in the above fields. He
has also served as Evaluator for International Research Programs. He
participated in the committees of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th International Workshop
on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (BE-EMF) and the 3rd, 4th
Pan-Hellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET). He is
a member of various scientific and academic societies. Within lifelong
learning and continuous professional development he has participated in
several conferences, seminars and trainings. In October 2010 he was elected
Lecturer of the University of Ioannina, Physics Department and his
appointment was completed on February 2014. In 2017 he was elected Assistant
Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Ioannina and his
appointment was completed on February 2018. He has teaching experience in
higher education since 1998 in the Department of Physics, University of
Ioannina, offering: a) Auxiliary teaching, b) Self-teaching at Undergraduate
and Postgraduate level, c) Supervising and mentoring undergraduate and
graduate students. Additionally, he participated as a consultant in several
MSc theses and PhD dissertations in the field of
Telecommunications-Electronics. Since 2007 he has developed a strong
administrative activity initially in the R&D sector and from 2014 and
beyond in the academic field.
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