Georgia Athanasiadou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (dit.uop.gr) of the University of Peloponnese and founding member of the Wireless and Mobile Communications Lab (wmclab.uop.gr). She holds an MEng degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and a PhD from the Centre for Communications Research, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK (‘98).

She was a postgraduate Research Assistant at the Mobile Radio Communications Lab, NTUA (‘92-3), a Research Assistant, Associate and then Research Fellow at the University of Bristol (‘93–9), a Senior Research Engineer at Adaptive Broadband Ltd, Cambridge (‘99–1) and an Industrial Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK (‘01–2). Since 2002, she has been at the University of Peloponnese, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications as an Adjunct, Assistant and now Associate Professor on ‘Modern wireless communications: propagation and radio coverage’.

Georgia Athanasiadou currently participates in the H2020 project SYNERGIES, as well as PANDORA. She has worked on the H2020 projects MERLON and BIMERR, as well as in many national and international research projects with companies such as the Defense Evaluation Research Agency UK, Nortel Networks, British Telecom, Orange PCS, Hewlett Packard, Cambridge Broadband, and Huawei. She has authored more than 100 journal/conference/magazine papers, book chapters and technical reports, and has been a TPC member of more than 20 international conferences. Her research interests include modern wireless communication systems, radiowave propagation for cellular, THz, drone communications, ray tracing propagation modeling, network planning for wireless and mobile communication systems, sensor networks.