Research Projects

01.11.2025 - 31.10.2029, PI, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, "Neuromorphic Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Ultra-Energy Efficient, and Secure Low-Latency Communications", Duration: 48 months

07/2025 - 06/2028, Senior Researcher, EUROPEAN DEFENCE FUND (EDF) 2023 "AVALON-UnderwAter optical wireless communication network architecture empowered by adVanced opticAl materiaLs for sea bOrder protection and deep-sea exploratioN", Duration: 36 months.

2/2024-1/2026, Principal Investigator, European Space Agency, “LEO-DIVE – Robust LEO Multi-Satellite DIVErsity Techniques for Enhanced User Terminal Performance”, Duration: 24 months.

1/2024-12/2025, Co-PI & Senior Researcher, HORIZON-EUSPA-2022-SPACE, “5G-GOVSATCOM – Fifth Generation Technology Standard for European Union Governmental Satellite Communications”, Duration: 24 months.

1/2023-12/2025, Deputy Technical Manager, 6G SNS EU Horizon Research Framework, “NANCY – An Artificial Intelligent Aided Unified Network for Secure Beyond 5G Long term Evolution”, Duration: 36 months.

5/2023-9/2025, Senior Researcher, Next Generation EU, “Interconnected Smart Cities for Greece 2.0,” Duration: 28 months.

2021-2024, PI, NSFC 2020, Title: Research on Energy Harvesting and Security Communication Based on Power Convergence Metasurface" 

2019-2021 Core Member, General Project of Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, 2019A1515012136, Title: Research on Physical Layer Security for Ultra-Secure and Reliable IoT Applications , Duration: 2019/10- 2021/09.

2018 Core Member, Guangdong Science and Technology Plan Project, Title: Key Optical Wireless Converged Technologies for Distributed 5G Systems, Funding Source: Guangdong Province, China, Coordinator: SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, Duration: 1.1.2019 - 31.12.2021.

2018-2020 External Collaborator, NU Small Grant, PI Prof. C. Valagiannopoulos, Physics Dept., Title: Super transmitters, radiators and lenses via photonic synthetic matter, SST2018039 , Duration: 2018/01-2020/12.

2017 PI, VAJRA (Visiting Advanced Joint Research) Faculty Scheme, “Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Enhanced Mobile Communication Systems”, Host Institution: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) , (in the process of evaluation).

2016–2017 PI, Social Grant, “Energy Harvesting and Information Transfer in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks”, Nazarbayev University, Budget: 10,000 USD.

2013–2016 Key Personnel, Senior Researcher, 7th Framework Programme for Research, Activity 11–1.1 FutNetw STREP+IP, “SOLDER: Spectrum OverLay through aggregation of heterogeneous DispERsed Bands” .

2013–2015 Framework: NSRF 2007–2013, Action COOPERATION 2011, “Fuel consumption reduction in marine power systems through innovative energy recovery management (ECOMARINE)”.

2013–2015 Qatar National Research Fund, National Priorities Research Program, “PSpARC: A Framework for Pervasive and Spectrum Aggregating Radio with Cognition”, Budget: 370,000 USD.

2012–2015 Framework: NSRF 2007–2013, Action COOPERATION 2009, “Energy Saving in Elevators Systems (LESS)”.

2013–2015 PI, Framework: NSRF 2007–2013, Action ARCHIMEDES III, “Interconnection of Distributed Renewable Energy Sources with the public grids (DGRES)”,Budget: 100,000 EUR.

2011–2014 Framework: NSRF 2007–2013, Action HELLENIC CRAFT PROJECT, “Energy Saving and Harmonic Cancellation for Industrial Loads”.

2007–2009 General Secretariat of Research & Technology (Bilateral Cooperation Greece–Tunisia), “On the study of generalized fading distributions for wireless digital communications”.

2004–2006 General Secretariat of Research & Technology (Bilateral Cooperation Greece–Poland), “Analysis of deployment possibilities of transmit and receive diversity in wireless access systems”.