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Meet our team

Faculty Members

Anna Tzanakaki

Anna Tzanakaki is a Professor at the Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. She received her BSc from the University of Crete and her MSc and PhD from the University of Essex, UK. Prior to joining NKUA, she held academic and research positions at the University of Bristol, Athens Information Technology (AIT), Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Essex, and also worked in the optical networking industry. She has authored over 250 scientific publications, is a co-inventor of several patents, and has coordinated numerous European and national research projects, including the EU 5G-TACTIC project. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and her research focuses on optical and converged communication networks, 5G/6G systems, and next-generation network architectures.

Markos Anastasopoulos

Markos Anastasopoulos is an Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Previously, he was a Senior Researcher with the High Performance Networks Group at the University of Bristol, UK. His research interests include optical and wireless communication networks, mobile and distributed computing, and network design and management. He has authored over 100 publications in international journals and conferences and has received several academic distinctions, including the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award of NTUA (2009) and the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/IFIP ONDM Conference (2013).

Post Doctoral Researchers

Victoria Alevizaki

Viktoria-Maria Alevizaki is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA), Athens, Greece. She received her BSc, MSc and PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests include beyond-5G/6G networks, software-defined networking, edge and cloud computing, AI-driven network management, and communication network orchestration. She has participated in several European and national research projects and has published in international journals and conferences.

Pavlos Doanis

Pavlos Doanis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications). He received his B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in Electronic Telecommunications Technology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sorbonne University, following doctoral research at EURECOM, France, as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. His research focuses on AI-driven automation for beyond-5G/6G networks, deep reinforcement learning, network slicing, and integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). He has participated in several EU-funded research projects and has published in leading IEEE journals and conferences.

Alexandros Manolopoulos

Alexandros – Ioannis Manolopoulos holds a PhD from the Physics Department at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece and is a researcher at the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA). His main research interests focus on mobile networks, and in particular on Virtualization technologies in Cloud- Core & Radio Access Networks. He graduated from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Peloponnese. He holds a master’s degree in Electronics and Radioelectrology, from the Interfaculty Program of Postgraduate Studies (IPPS) at the NKUA, Greece.

PhD Students

Ilias Floudas

Ilias Floudas is a PhD student in the Department of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and a member of the Systems and Networks Research Group (SNRG). He holds an MSc in Electronics and Radioelectrology from NKUA and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Hellenic Air Force Academy. His research focuses on advanced wireless communication systems and next-generation networking technologies, including 5G/6G networks, software-defined radio (SDR), integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), MIMO systems, beamforming, and physical layer security. He has contributed to several national and European research projects while serving as an Air Force Officer specializing in Electronic Warfare systems.