About me
I received the MEng and the PhD degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens in 2004 and 2009, respectively.
From 2005 to 2007 Ι was a member of the team responsible for planning the Greek DVD-T network, and participated in the ITU RRC-06 as GRC delegate.
In 2011 I moved to Tripolis, Greece, to follow a career in academia, so for the past 12 years I have been holding a Laboratory and Teaching Staff position at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Peloponnese; I am also a member of the Wireless and Mobile Communications laboratory of the affiliated department for the same period of time.
In 2021, I started an MBA program at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in an effort to acquire better people and project management skills but also, to have a peak at the world of business through the familiar academic environment.
My research interests span the areas of wireless communication systems and RF network planning, simulation and analysis of PHY key technologies regarding 3G/4G/5G wireless systems (heterogeneous networks, advanced antenna techniques, massive MIMO, relaying strategies, full-duplex).
As I get older I find myself juggling different kind of problems, most of the times far from technical. I have a childish love for perfection, that, however, I willingly sacrifice in favor of efficiency; the phrase "it works!" is one of my favorites.
Gradually, as a job-oriented person, I developed a deep appreciation of well-structured work environments that cultivate healthy relations among colleagues, while, at the same time, a perpetual challenge for me is engaging and motivating younger researchers and students into adhering to teamwork and to a collaborative style of working.
Technical problems can be easy, when you have solved all the non-technical ones.
Projects
Current
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SYNERGIES - Shaping consumer-inclusive data pathwaYs towards the eNERGy transItion, through a reference Energy data Space implementation(Grant agreement ID: 101069839)
Funding: Horizon 2020 - Innovation action (HORIZON.2.5.3 - Energy Systems and Grids)
Duration: 45 months (01/09/2022 - 28/02/2026)
Budget: € 10.180.687,50
Project on cordis - PANDORA - Observatory of EME exposure from wireless communication networks with emphasis on 5G at the Peloponnese Region Funding: Region of Peloponnese Duration: 2 years (01/05/2021 - 30/04/2023) Budget: €
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BIMERR - BIM-based holistic tools for Energy-driven Renovation of existing Residences(Grant agreement ID: 820621)
Funding: Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation action (H2020-EU.2.1.5)
Duration: 45 months (01/01/2019 - 30/09/2022)
Budget: € 6.933.320
Project on cordis
Past
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MERLON - Integrated Modular Energy Systems and Local Flexibility Trading for Neural Energy Islands (Grant agreement ID: 824386)
Funding: Horizon 2020 - Innovation action (H2020-EU.3.3.4)
Duration: 39 months (01/01/2019 - 31/03/2022)
Budget: € 7.551.058,75
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PEGA - Education of university graduates on current ICT trends and developments (GR/EU - MIS 505700)
Funding: Project co-financed by E.U. and Greek national funds
Duration: 5 months (06/2015 - 11/2015)
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INTENTION - Novel Transmit and Design Techniques for Broadband Wireless Networks (GR/EU-THALIS-NTUA-MIS 379489)
Funding: Research Project co-financed by E.U. and Greek national funds Duration: 36 months (03/2012 -02/2015) Budget: € 512.000 -
PENED2003 - Study of smart antennas systems applied at both the transmitter and receiver ends
Funding: Research Project co-financed by E.U. and the Greek Ministry of Development
Duration: 36 months (11/2005 - 06/2009)
Budget: € 225.456 -
Technical support to the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications for the project of DVB-T network planning
Funding: Consulting Project funded by the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications
Duration: 14 months (12/2004 - 03/2006)
Budget: € 182.360 -
Technical support to the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications for the project of DVB-T plan coordination with the DVB-T plans of neighbouring ITU Member States
Funding: Consulting Project funded by the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications
Duration: 18 months (05/2005 - 12/2006)
Budget: € 177.310 -
Technical support to the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications for planning the transition strategy from= analogue TV broadcasting to DVB-T
Funding: Consulting Project funded by the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications Duration: 14 months (09/2005 - 12/2006) Budget: € 158.270 -
Measurements and Evaluation of Electromagnetic Fields in the prefecture of Arta
Funding: Technical Project funded by the Prefecture of Arta (Ipiros, Greece)
Duration: 3 months (02/2008 - 05/2008)
Budget: € 50.000 -
Measurements and Evaluation of Electromagnetic Fields in the prefecture of Lefkada
Technical Project funded by the Prefecture of Lefkada (Greece)
Duration: 3 months (11/2007 - 02/2008)
Budget: € 50.000 -
ACE - Antenna Centre of Excellence
Funding: European 6th framework IST (EU/FP6-IST-2006-026957)
Duration: 4 years (1/2004 - 12/2007)
Budget: € 13.534.000
Project site
Teaching
Courses
- Telecommunication Systems Measurements, Elective course of the 5th semester, 2018-2023.
- Principles of Communication Systems, Core course of the 4th semester, 2014-2023.
- Modern Cellular Communication Systems, Elective course of the 7th semester, 2015-2019.
- Electromagnetic Fields, Core course of the 3rd semester, 2010.
Labs
- Wireless Communications (MSc), Mandatory lab course, 2018-2023.
- Principles of Communication Systems, Mandatory lab course of the 4th semester, 2014-2015, 2021-2022.
- Programming II, Optional lab course, complementary to the theory lectures of the corresponding core course of the 2nd semester, 2013, 2015.
- Propagation and Radio Coverage in Wireless Communications (MSc), Mandatory lab course, 2011-2017.
- Wireless Links, Mandatory lab course of the 6th semester, 2011-20.
- Antennas, Mandatory lab course of the 7th semester, 2010-2018.
Recitations
- Physics, Complementary lectures on the course material, 2018.
- Electromagnetic Fields, Complementary lectures on the course material, 2014-2023.
- Wireless and Mobile Communications I, Complementary lectures on the course material, 2014-2023.
Publications
Journals
- D. Zarbouti, E. Koutsi, G. Athanasiadou, and G. Tsoulos, “Minimizing the Cost of PHEV Usage with Price Sensitive Charging Strategies,” Electricity, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 459–470, Oct. 2021 [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electricity2040027
- E. Koutsi, S. Deligiannis, G. Athanasiadou, D. Zarbouti and G. Tsoulos, "Analysis of EV Cost-Based Charging Load Profiles," in MDPI Proceedings, 65 (1), 2020, ISSN: 2504-3900. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2020065002
- Georgia E. Athanasiadou, Panagiotis Fytabanis, Dimitra A. Zarbouti, George V. Tsoulos, Panagiotis K. Gkonis and Dimitra I. Kaklamani, "Radio Network Planning towards 5G mmWave Standalone Small-Cell Architectures", Electronics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 339, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9020339
- S. Goudos, G. Tsoulos, G. Athanasiadou, M. Batistatos, D. Zarbouti and K. Psannis, "Artificial Neural Network Optimal Modeling and Optimization of UAV Measurements for Mobile Communications Using the L-SHADE Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation , vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 4022-4031, 2019. doi: 10.1109/tap.2019.2905665.
- G. Athanasiadou, G. Tsoulos, D. Zarbouti and I. Valavanis, "Optimizing Radio Network Planning Evolution Towards Microcellular Systems", Wireless Personal Communications , vol. 106, no. 2, pp. 521-534, 2019. doi: 10.1007/s11277-019-06177-5.
- Georgia E. Athanasiadou, Michael C. Batistatos, Dimitra A. Zarbouti, George V. Tsoulos, "LTE Ground to Air Field Measurements in the context of Flying Relays", in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 12-17, February 2019, doi: 10.1109/MWC.2018.1800225.
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos, and G. Athanasiadou, “Effective radiation pattern concept for wireless systems analysis,”in Electronics Letters, vol. 53, no. 16, pp. 1160-1162, 2017, doi: 10.1049/el.2017.1368.
- G. Tsoulos, Ö. Bulakci, D. Zarbouti, G. Athanasiadou, and A. Kaloxylos, “Dynamic wireless network shaping via moving cells: The nomadic nodes case,” Trans. Emerg. Telecommun. Technol., p. e3145, 2017, DOI:10.1002/ett.3145.
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos, G. Athanasiadou, Effects of antenna array characteristics on in-band full-duplex relays for broadband cellular communications , ICT Express, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 121–126, 2015, ISSN 2405-9595, DOI: 10.1016/j.icte.2015.11.002
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos, G. Athanasiadou, and C. Valagiannopoulos, " The Effective Radiation Pattern Concept for Realistic Performance Estimation of LTE Wireless Systems," International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2013, Article ID 746831, 8 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/746831
- D. Zarbouti, D.Tsilimantos, G.V.Tsoulos, G.Athanasiadou, and D.Kaklamani, "Performance of OFDMA multicell systems with Opportunistic Beamforming", Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, vol. 65, issue 4, pp 843-861, Jan. 2011.
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D. Tsilimantos, D. Zarbouti, G.V.Tsoulos, G.Athanasiadou, and D.Kaklamani, "Fairness and throughput trade-off analysis for UMTS WCDMA network planning", Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, vol. 56, issue 4, pp. 693-714, Jan. 2011.
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D. Zarbouti, I.Stiakogiannakis, G.V.Tsoulos, G.Athanasiadou, D.Kaklamani, "OFDMA techniques in multicellular networks with total frequency reuse", Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 32, issue 3, pp. 522-530, Feb. 2009.
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D. A. Kateros, D. A. Zarbouti, D. C. Tsilimantos, C. I. Katsigiannis, P. K. Gkonis, I. E. Foukarakis, D. I. Kaklamani and I. S. Venieris, "DVB-T network planning: A case study for Greece", Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE, vol, 51, no. 1, pp. 91- 101, Feb 2009.
doi: 10.1109/MAP.2009.4939022 - D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos and D. Kaklamani, "Impact of Fading Correlation and Calibration Distortion on MIMO Capacity Performance", WSEAS Transactions on Communications, vol.4, pp. 1040-1047, July 2005.
Book Chapters
- G. V. Tsoulos, G. E. Athanasiadou, D. A. Zarbouti, and I. K. Valavanis, “RF Planning for next generation systems,” in New Directions in Wireless Communications Systems: From Mobile to 5G, A. Kanatas, K. Nikita, and P. (Takis) Mathiopoulos, Eds. CRC Press, 2017
- D. A. Zarbouti, D. A. Kateros, D. I. Kaklamani and G. N. Prezerakos, "Overview of transmit diversity techniques for multiple antenna systems", book Chapter in Digital Signal Processing Handbook 2nd Edition, Ed. Vijay Madisetti, CRC Press, 2008. (invited)
- D. A. Zarbouti, D. A. Kateros, D. I. Kaklamani and G.N. Prezerakos, "Antenna diversity schemes suitable for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based standards", Chapter 12 in Handbook of Mobile Broadcasting: DVB-H, DMB, ISDB-T and MediaFLO, Eds. Borko Furht and Syed Ahson, CRC Press, 2008, ISBN: 9781420053869, pp. 319-339. (invited).
- D. Zarbouti, G.V.Tsoulos, D.Kaklamani, "Theory and practice of MIMO wireless communication systems", Chapter 2 in MIMO System Technology for Wireless Communications, Ed. G.V. Tsoulos, CRC Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780849341908, pp. 29-56. (invited)
Conferences
- E. Koutsi, S. Deligiannis, G. Athanasiadou, D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos, "Analysis of Electric Vehicle (EV) cost-based charging load profiles. Sustainable Places 2020 (SP2020), https://www.sustainableplaces.eu/, Digital Event, 2020.
- S. Deligiannis, E. Koutsi, G. Athanasiadou, D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos, "Forecasting Electric Energy Demand for V2G and G2V Systems Under Different Charging Profiles", 7th International Conference on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change (ESCC 2020), Skiathos, Greece, 2020.
- E. Koutsi, S. Deligiannis, I. Sarantopoulos, D. Zarbouti, G. Athanasiadou, G. Tsoulos, “Radiation measurements in office environment with Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G users,” International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST), Thessaloniki, Greece, 13-15 May, 2019.
- M. Batistatos, G. Tsoulos, D. Zarbouti, G. Athanasiadou and S. Goudos, "LTE Measurements for Flying Relays," International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST), Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 May, 2018.
- M. C. Batistatos, G. E. Athanasiadou, D. A. Zarbouti, G. V. Tsoulos, N. C. Sagias, "LTE Ground-to-Air Measurements for UAV-assisted cellular networks,” in 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018), London, UK, 9-13 April 2018.
- G.V. Tsoulos, Ömer Bulakci, Dimitra Zarbouti, G. E. Athanasiadou, A. Kaloxylos, "Performance of Vehicular Nomadic Node Operation in Realistic Multicellular Wireless Networks," in IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference, Sydney, Australia, 4-7 June, 2017.
- G. N. Solidakis, F. M. Tsokas, M. C. Batistatos, N. C. Sagias, G. V. Tsoulos, D. A. Zarbouti, G. E. Athanasiadou, "An Arduino-Based Subsystem for Controlling UAVs Through GSM," International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST), Thessaloniki, Greece, 4-6 May, 2017.
- G. V. Tsoulos, G. E. Athanasiadou, I. K. Valavanis, and D. A. Zarbouti, “Green 4g Radio Network Planning,” in 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2017), Paris, France, 19-24 March 2017.
- P. Fytampanis, G. V. Tsoulos, G.E. Athanasiadou, D. A. Zarbouti, "Wireless Channel Capacity Estimation in the THz Band," in International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), Athens, Greece, 1-3 March, 2017
- I. K. Valavanis, D. Zarbouti, G. E. Athanasiadou and G. V. Tsoulos, "Base-station Antenna Pattern Reconfiguration for LTE Heterogeneous Network Planning Optimization", in 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2016), Davos, Switzerland, 10-15 April 2016.
- M. C. Batistatos, D. Zarbouti, G. V. Tsoulos and G. E. Athanasiadou, "Flying Relays for 4G Service-on-Demand Applications", 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2016), Davos, Switzerland, 10-15 April 2016.
- I. K. Valavanis, G. E. Athanasiadou, D. Zarbouti, and G. V. Tsoulos, "Multi-Objective Optimization for Base-Station Location in Mixed-Cell LTE Networks", in 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2016), Davos, Switzerland, 10-15 April 2016.
- I. K. Valavanis, D. Zarbouti, G. E. Athanasiadou and G. V. Tsoulos, "Basestation antenna pattern reconfiguration for minimum transmit power network planning," Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm), 2015 IEEE Online Conference on, Piscataway, NJ, 2015, pp. 66-71.
- G. Athanasiadou, G.Tsoulos, D. Zarbouti, "Base-station positioning for heterogeneous systems with coverage, capacity and cost criteria", in Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2015 European Conference on, pp.91-96, June 29-July 2 2015.
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos, G. Athanasiadou, " 4G Multicell Systems with In-Band Full Duplex Relays: Using Beamforming to Lower Self-Interference and/or Transmitted Powers", in Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2015 IEEE 81st , p.1-6, 11-14 May 2015.
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos, G. Athanasiadou, " The effects of antenna array size and back lobe level on self-interference and transmitted powers of 4g beamforming multicell systems with in-band full duplex relays", 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 12-17 April 2015. ( Finalist for Best Paper Award)
- G.Athanasiadou, G.Tsoulos, D. Zarbouti, "A combinatorial algorithm for Base station location optimization for LTE mixed cell MIMO", 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 12-17 April 2015.
- I. K. Valavanis, G. E. Athanasiadou, D. Zarbouti, G. V. Tsoulos, "Base-Station Location Optimization for LTE Systems with Genetic Algorithms," 20th European Wireless Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 14-16 May 2014.
- G. E. Athanasiadou, D. Zarbouti, G. V. Tsoulos, "Automatic Location of Base-Stations for Optimum Coverage and Capacity Planning of LTE Systems", 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014), Hague, The Netherlands, 6-11 April 2014.
- D. Zarbouti, G. V. Tsoulos, G. E. Athanasiadou and C. A. Valagiannopoulos, “Performance of MISO Beamforming systems based on effective radiation patterns”, COST IC1102, 4th meeting, Thessaloniki, 22-24 May 2013.
- D. A. Zarbouti, G. V. Tsoulos, G. E. Athanasiadou, "Theoretic SIR for Multicarrier MISO Beamforming Cellular Systems," Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on, Goteburg, Sweden, 8-11 April 2013.
- D. A. Zarbouti, D. C. Tsilimantos, G. V. Tsoulos, G.E. Athanasiadou, D.I. Kaklamani, "OFDMA multicell systems with opportunistic beamforming," Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2010 IEEE 21st International Symposium on, Istanbul, Turkey, pp.1407-1412, 26-30 Sept. 2010.
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D. A. Zarbouti, D.I. Kaklamani, G.V. Tsoulos, G.E. Athanasiadou, "Opportunistic Beamforming in OFDMA Systems", Informatics (PCI), 2010 14th Panhellenic Conference on, Tripoli, Greece, pp.93-98, 10-12 Sept. 2010.
doi: 10.1109/PCI.2010. - D. Zarbouti, I. Stiakogiannakis, G. Tsoulos, G. Athanasiadou and D. Kaklamani, "Performance Evaluation of OFDMA Techniques in Multicellular Networks", Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2008. PIMRC 2008. IEEE 19th International Symposium on, Cannes, France, pp.1-5, 15-18 September 2008.
- I. Stiakogiannakis, D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos and D. Kaklamani, "Subcarrier Allocation Algorithms for multicellular OFDMA networks without Channel State Information", Wireless Pervasive Computing, 2008. ISWPC 2008. 3rd International Symposium on, Santorini, Greece, pp.73-77, 7-9 May 2008.
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos and D. I. Kaklamani, "Performance Evaluation of OFDMA RRM Algorithms with Total Spectrum Reuse", Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on, Edinburgh, UK, pp.1-5,11-16 November 2007.
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos and D. I. Kaklamani, "Performance Evaluation of OFDMA RRM Algorithms with Spectrum Reuse 1", Wireless Technologies, 2007 European Conference on, Munich, Germany, pp. 205-208, 8-10 October 2007.
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos and D. I. Kaklamani, "Correlation and calibration effects on MIMO capacity performance", Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Communications, Athens, Greece, 14-16 July 2005.
- D. Zarbouti, G. Tsoulos and D. I. Kaklamani, "Performance of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Wireless Systems",Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Information Theory, Benelux, Belgium, 19-20 May 2005, pp. 73-80.
Ελληνικά Συνέδρια/Περιοδικά
- Ε. Κούτσι, Σ. Δεληγιάννης, Δ. Ζαρμπούτη, Ι. Σαραντόπουλος, Γ. Αθανασιάδου, Γ. Τσούλος, “Μετρήσεις ΗΜ ακτινοβολίας σε περιβάλλον εσωτερικού χώρου με χρήστεςκινητής τηλεφωνίας και WiFi“, Πέλοπας – Διεπιστημονικό Περιοδικό Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου, τόμος 4, τεύχος 1, σελ. 18-24, Ιούνιος 2020, ISSN: 2529-1831.
- P. Koutsandrias, G. Tsoulos, G. Athanasiadou, D. Zarbouti, N.Sagias, "NANOSATELLITES", Pelopas – Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of Peloponnese, vol. 2, no. 2, pag. 7, Dec. 2018, ISSN: 2529-1831
- Μ. Μπατιστάτος, Γ. Τσούλος, Ν. Σαγιάς, Δ. Ζαρμπούτη. Γ. Αθανασιάδου, Π. Ματσάγγος, "Τεχνολογία και Εφαρμογές Μη – Επανδρωμένων Εναέριων Οχημάτων: Εισαγωγή – Εφαρμογές – Εξελίξεις”, Πέλοπας – Διεπιστημονικό Περιοδικό Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου, τόμ 1, τεύχ. 2, σελ. 139, Δεκ. 2017, ISSN: 2529-1831
- Γ. Τσούλος, Γ. Αθανασιάδου, Δ. Ζαρμπούτη, Γ. Βαλαβάνης, “Σχεδίαση οικολογικών δικτύων κινητών επικοινωνιών χαμηλής εκπεμπόμενης ισχύος“, Πέλοπας – Διεπιστημονικό Περιοδικό Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου, τόμ 1, τεύχ. 1, σελ. 62, Ιούν. 2017, ISSN: 2529-1831
- Δ. Ζαρμπούτη, Γ. Τσούλος και Δ. Κακλαμάνη, "Μελέτη συστημάτων πολλαπλών εισόδων-εξόδων (ΜΙΜΟ) για σύγχρονες ασύρματες επικοινωνίες", 1ο Δελτίο ΠΣΔΗΜΥ, τεύχος 384, 2006, σελ. 50-55.
Administrative
Member of the General Assembly of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Peloponnese as elected representative of the Laboratory Teaching Staff of the department, November 2022 -
Department Representative at the Committee on Gender and Equality Issues of the University of Peloponnese, April 2022 -Member of the Faculty of Economics and Technology of the University of Peloponnese as elected representative of the Laboratory Teaching Staff members of the School of Economics and Technology, 2017 - 2021.
Regular member of the Quality Assurance Unit of the University of Peloponnese as a representative of the Laboratory Teaching Staff of the university, 2014 - 2016.
Member of the General Assembly of the Department of Telecommunications Science and Technology of the University of Peloponnese as elected representative of the Laboratory Teaching Staff of the department, 2013
Member of the Senate of the University of Peloponnese as elected representative of the Laboratory Teaching Staff of the university, 2012 - 2017.
Contact
Work Address | Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of the Peloponnese Akadimaikou G. K. Vlachou Street GR-221 31 Tripoli, Greece |
dzarb[at]uop[dot]gr |