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Biography
Fotini joined Microsoft Research in Cambridge, the Cloud Infrastructure Ambition Group in July 2018 where she works on developing optical technologies for next generation cloud computing systems and networks.
Before joining Microsoft, she was a Senior R&D Engineer at Huawei Technologies Ltd, Fixed Networks, in the Optical & Quantum Lab, in the German Research Centre in Munich, since 2013, where she worked on various research and development projects on optical transmission systems and networks, spanning from high-capacity optical interconnects for datacom, to metro/access, and long-haul coherent systems. In parallel, she worked on optical systems and subsystems of quantum key distribution (QKD) physical layer prototypes for quantum communications and toward the integration of a continuous variables QKD system in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) deployed telecom infrastructure.
She received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with specialisation in Telecommunications and Information Theory, and the PhD degree in optical communications with a focus on spectrally efficient WDM optical interconnect networks, employing advanced modulation formats, for high-performance computing systems, from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Patras, in Rio, Greece, in 2007, and 2012, respectively.
During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at Denmark Technical University, the Photonics Department, where she worked in projects on spectrum-flexible reconfigurable cognitive optical networks and hybrid optical fibre-wireless transmission. As a part of her Diploma she was a visiting student at Vienna University, the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) at the Experimental Physics Institute of Prof. Zeilinger, working on quantum cryptography, participating in the initial attempts for the realization of a commercial prototype of a quantum key distribution system based on polarisation entanglement in the European FP6 SECOQC project.
Fotini has authored and co-authored more than 70 publications in the highest prestigious optical communications technology journals and conferences. She has been engaged in several European research projects such as EU FP6 SECOQC, EU FP7 ICT-BONE, EU FP7 CHRON, and H2020 ROAM.
