Nikos C. Sagias was born in Athens, Greece in 1974. He received the BSc degree from the department of Physics (DoP) of the University of Athens (UoA), Greece in 1998. The MSc and PhD degrees in Telecommunication Engineering were received both from the UoA in 2000 and 2005, respectively. Since 2001, he has been involved in various National and European Research & Development projects for the Institute of Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece. During 2006-2008, was a Postdoc research scholar at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National Centre for Scientific Research-"Demokritos", Athens, Greece. In 2008 he we was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications at the University of Peloponnese, in Tripolis, Greece, where currently is a Professor. Between 2014-16 and 2018-2020 he served as the Head of DIT.
Dr. Sagias research interests span the broad area of digital communications, and more specifically include MIMO and cooperative systems, fading channels, satellite communications and optical-wireless communication systems. In his record, he has over seventy (70) papers in prestigious international journals and more than fifty (50) in the proceedings of world recognized conferences. For five (5) years (between 2009-14) he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, while before 2009 he had served as an Editor for AEÜ - International Journal of Electronics and Communications and IETE Technical Review. Additionally, he is serving as a reviewer and TPC member for various IEEE conferences (GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, etc). He is a co-recipient of the best paper award in communications in the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2014 and 3rd International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), Malta, March 2008. He is a senior member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society as well as the Hellenic Physicists Association.
- Webpage: https://telecom.uop.gr/sagias/
- Curriculum Vitae: https://telecom.uop.gr/sagias/my-cv