Georgia Athanasiadou is a Professor of Modern Wireless Communications (Radio Propagation and Coverage), at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications , and a founding member of the Wireless and Mobile Communications Lab . She holds an MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and a PhD from the Centre for Communications Research, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK.
She is currently involved in the SYNERGIES project and in the national INTERPLAY project on IoT technologies and sensor networks, where she serves as Deputy Scientific Coordinator and member of the University of Peloponnese scientific team. She also participates in PANDORA, a regional initiative to develop a 5G electromagnetic field observatory. Her past contributions include the H2020 projects MERLON and BIMERR, as well as multiple national (Thalis, PEGA) and international research projects with organizations such as the Defense Evaluation Research Agency UK, Nortel Networks, British Telecom, Orange PCS, Huawei, Hewlett Packard, and Cambridge Broadband.
Her professional experience includes serving as an Industrial Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge UK, a Senior Research Engineer at Adaptive Broadband Ltd (Cambridge UK), a Postgraduate Research Fellow at the University of Bristol UK, and a postgraduate Research Assistant at NTUA Mobile Radio Communications Lab. Since 2002, she has been at the University of Peloponnese, where she serves on the MSc Steering Committee for the MSc in Modern Wireless Communications.
She has authored over 150 publications including journal articles, conference and magazine papers, book chapters, and technical reports. She is also a frequent reviewer for technical journals and has served on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for over 20 international conferences. Her research interests focus on modern wireless communication systems, radiowave propagation for terrestrial and drone communications, ray tracing propagation modeling, network planning for wireless and mobile communication systems, IoT and sensor networks. She is ranked among the top 1.13% of scientists worldwide in wireless communications (Scholar GPS).