ABOUT ME

Ioannis is Professor at the ECE department of University of Patras. In the past he held a “Chair of Excellence Professor” (Cátedras de Excelencia) position at the University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain), an “Adjunct Professorship” at the College of Optical Sciences of University of Arizona, an “Adjunct Research Fellowship” at the ECE Department at University of Cyprus, an Adjunct Faculty position at the Information Networking Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, and a Senior Scientist position at Corning Inc. USA. He was/is involved in over 25 EU-funded R&D projects within which he served as Principal Investigator having a consortium-wide leading role. His most recent research interests relate with 5G network technologies and their use in smart networks. In 2018, Dr. Tomkos was elected a Fellow of IEEE “for contributions in Dynamic Optical Networks”. He is also a Fellow of the IET (2010) and a Fellow of the “Optical Society” (2012). Together with his colleagues and students he has authored over 600 peer-reviewed archival articles, including over 150 Journal/Magazine/Book publications. His published work has received over 9500 citations and his h-factor is 48.