Dr. Theodoros Tsiftsis was born in Lamia, Greece, in November 1970. He received the degree in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1993, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., in 1995. Also, he received the M.Sc. degree in Decision Sciences from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2006. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technological Educational Institute of Lamia in February 2010. He is also an affiliate academic with the Wireless Communications Systems Group (WCSG), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Dr. Tsiftsis serves as a National Expert for Greece in the HORIZON 2020 Information and Communication Technologies theme (2014-2020).
Editorships
· Senior Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (Jan. 2014 present)
· Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications (Oct. 2012 present)
· Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (July 2010 Jan. 2014)
· Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Oct. 2010- Oct. 2012)
· Editor, IET Communications (July 2010- Oct. 2012)
· Editor, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering - EURASIP - Hindawi (Aug. 2007- July 2010)
· Editor, Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering - Bentham Science Publishers (June 2007-July 2010)
Research Interest
· Energy efficient communications
· Performance analysis of wireless systems
· Relay assisted and cooperative communications
· Wireless Communications over Fading Channels
· Wireless Communications Theory
· Optical Wireless Communications (FSO, VLC)
Awards
Ericsson award of excellence in Telecommunications awarded by ERICSSON HELLAS S.A., for his PhD Thesis, July 2007.
