Nikolaos

Biography

was born in Constantinople, Turkey in 1951. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University in 1973. He obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Essex, UK, in 1974 and 1976, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and Head of the Microwave and Fibre Optics Laboratory. His research interests include electromagnetic theory, microwaves, fibre optics, telecommunications, biological process simulations, in silico oncology, and biomedical engineering. In 1981, he received the International G. Marconi Award in Telecommunications and he is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

Research Interest

Dr. Uzunoglu has been coordinator to a large number of Research Projects of European Commission (40) starting from 1984. In 2005 he was honored with the IEEE Fellow membership. 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. He has been scientific coordinator in 20 European Projects related to Telecommunciations (Fiber Optics, Satellite and Terrestrial Communications) and Applied Electromagnetism. He is active in the research fields: antennas, microwave circuits and systems, digital communications and application of electromagnetic technology in biomedical engineering.