Dr Petros S. Bithas received the B.S. in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece, in 2003. From the same Department he received the Ph.D. degree with specialization in "Wireless Communication Systems" in 2009. During 2004-2009, he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing (ISARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece. At ISARS he has participating in various Research and Development (R&D) projects, including the Advanced Telematic Systems for Vehicles funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology and the European Network of Excellence for Satellite Communications (SatNEx phase I and II) funded by the European Commission. Furthermore, during 2010-2013 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, where he involved in EXALTED (EXpAnding LTE for Devices) an Integrating Project (IP) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Since October 2009 he is affiliated with the Department of Εlectronics engineering of the Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus as a Lab Instructor. Curently he is research associate at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the NOA, Greece.
Dr. Bithas serves on the Editorial Board of AEÜ International Journal of Electronics and Communications (ELSEVIER). Furthermore, he acts as a reviewer for various international journals (including IEEE Transactions on Communications,-on Wireless Communications, - on Vehicular Technology, - on Information Theory and IEEE Communications Letters) and various IEEE conferences, such VTC, ICC and GlobeCom, while he has acted as a member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the IEEE VTC2008-Fall Calgary. In addition he has also served as a project evaluator for the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (2010) and the Czech Science Foundation (2011, 2012, 2014). Dr. Bithas has been selected as an "Exemplary Reviewer" of IEEE Communications Letters for year 2010, while he is also co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2013.
He has published more than thirty articles in international scientific journals and in the proceedings of international conferences. His current research interests include stochastic modelling of wireless communication channels, performance analysis of mobile communications systems, cooperative diversity reception systems and distributed MIMO techniques.