P. Takis Mathiopoulos received the Ph.D. degree in digital communications from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 1989. From 1982 - 1986, he was with Raytheon Canada Ltd., working in the areas of air navigational and satellite communications. In 1988, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, where he was a faculty member for 13 years, last holding the rank of Professor.  He is currently Director of Research at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing (ISARS), National Observatory of Athens (NOA), where he established the Wireless Communications Research Group. As ISARS' Director, he has led the Institute to a significant expansion R&D growth, and international scientific recognition. For these achievements, ISARS has been selected as a national Centre of Excellence for the years 2005 to 2008. Since 2003 he also teaches part-time at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, where he was recently elected Professor of Digital Communications. In 2008 and for a period of 5 years he was appointed Guest Professor at the Southwest Jiaotong University, China.

For the last 20 years he has been conducting research mainly on the physical layer of digital communication systems for terrestrial and satellite applications, including digital communications over fading and interference environments. He co-authored a paper in GLOBECOM'89 establishing for the first time in the open technical literature the link between MLSE and multiple (or multi-symbol) differential detection for the AWGN and fading channels. He is also interested in channel characterization and measurements, modulation and coding techniques, SIMO/MIMO, UWB, OFDM, and software/cognitive radios. In these areas, he has co-authored more than 80 journal papers, 4 book chapters and some 110 conference papers.

Dr. Mathiopoulos has been or currently serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals, including the IET Communications, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS (1993 -2005). He has regularly acted as a Consultant for various governmental and private organizations. Since 1993, he has served on a regular basis as a scientific advisor and a technical expert for the European Commission (EC). He has been a member of the TPC of more than 50 international conferences, as well as the Vice Chair for the Spring 2006-S IEEE VTC and the 2008-F IEEE VTC. He has delivered numerous invited presentations, including plenary lectures, and has taught many short courses all over the world. He was an ASI Fellow, a Killam Research Fellow and a co-recipient of the best paper award from the 2008 International Conference on Communication, Control, and Signal Processing"

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