UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS         DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

LABORATORY OF EMBEDDED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

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Vassilios Makios

Emeritus Professor

Laboratory of Embedded Communication Systems

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Patras

26504 Patras, Greece

Phone : +30 2610 996486

E-mail : v.makios@ee.upatras.gr

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Vassilios Makios was born in Kavala, Greece. He received his Electrical Engineering degree (Dipl. Ing.) from the Technical University in Munich, Germany in 1962 and the Ph.D (Dr. Ing.) from the Max Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics and the Technical University in Munich in 1966.

From 1962-67 he was Research Associate in the Max Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics in Munich, where he was associated with microwave interaction studies on plasmas. He served as Assistant Professor 1967-70, Associate Professor 1970-73 and full Professor 1973-77 in the Department of Electronics, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he was involved with teaching and research in microwave and optical communications, radar technology, remote sensing and CO2 laser development. From 1977 he is an Honorary Research Professor of Carleton University.

In 1975 he was elected Professor of Engineering and Director of the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Patras in Greece, where he is involved in teaching and research in microwave and optical communications, data communications networks, LAN's MAN's, B-ISDN and ATM technology with emphasis on efficient hardware implementations and rapid prototyping. He is also involved in research in photovoltaic systems.

In 1986-87 he spent his sabbatical year at the R&D laboratories of SIEMENS in Munich. He has published over 120 papers and numerous patents in the above fields. He has participated in the organizing committees of numerous IEEE and European Conferences and was the Technical Program Chairman of the 5th Photovoltaic European Community Conference in Athens 1983 and Co Chairman of the EURINFO 1988 Conference of the European Community. He is the recipient of the silver(1985) and golden(1999) medal of the German Electrical Engineering Society (VDE). He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the Canadian Association of Physicists, the German Physical Society and the VDE, Professional Engineer of the Province of Ontario and the Greek Technical Chamber.

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