National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Born in Istanbul in 1951 he graduated as Electronic Engineer from the Istanbul Technical University in 1973. Then he obtained his Master in Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering Science at the University of Essex, United Kingdom in 1974 and 1976 respectively. He was forced to leave his birth place because of the persecution against the Greek-Orthodox minority that he was member(1976) and went to Athens-Greece. He obtained his Doctor of Science Degree in 1981 at the National Technical University of Athens-Greece in the scientific field of Electro-optic Systems. He was elected as Associate Professor at the National Technical University of Athens (1984) and promoted to Professor in 1987. He was elected and served as a Dean of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1988-94) and established the Research Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (1991-99) and during this period he took initiatives to establish the Ph.D. studies at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens and also supporting the establishment a large number of Research Laboratories making possible the extensive participation of the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems to European Research and Development Projects. He has been coordinator to a large number of Research Projects of European Commission (40) starting from 1984. He worked extensively after the political changes in the Eastern Europe and ex-Soviet Union to promote the establishment of links of European Countries and Greece with Eastern European and Trans-Black sea region countries which were broken during the cold war period. In 1994 he was elected as a Honorary Professor of the State Engineering University of Armenia and in 1995 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. In 2005 he was honored with the IEEE Fellow membership. He has been awarded with the honorary Ph.D. of three Romanian Universities and Polytechnic University in 2006 amd Polytechnic University of Tirana-Albania.
The research fields he worked include: Electromagnetic Theory and its Applications in Telecommunications, Sensors, Biomedical Engineering and Remote Sensing. He has designed and developed numerous prototype systems based on novel concepts of Electromagnetism. His research work combines theory and experiment. He has published 250 papers in internationally recognized peer reviewed scientific journals and he authored 5 books. He has supervised 60 Ph. D students. In 2007 he was elected as the founding President of the Ecumenical Federation of Constantinopolitans which still serves. In addition to his scientific activities he has worked as researcher on topics of history of the Eastern Europe and published more than 30 articles on the history of Byzantine people.
