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Dr Christos Politis

School/Department: Computing and Information Systems
Position: Reader

Biography

Christos is a Reader (Associate Professor) of Wireless Communications at Kingston University London, School of Computing & Information Systems (CIS), Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing (SEC). There he leads a research team on Wireless Multimedia & Networking (WMN) and teaches modules related to communications. Christos is the course director for the 'Wireless Communications/ WC', 'Networks and Data Communications/ NDC' and 'Networks and Information Security/ NIS' postgraduate taught courses. Prior to this post, he was the Research and Development (R&D) manager at Ofcom, the UK Regulator and Competition Authority. There he managed a number of projects across a wide range of technical areas including cognitive radio, polite protocols, radar, LE Applications, fixed wireless and mobile technologies. Christos' previous positions include telecommunications engineer with Intracom Telecom in Athens and for many years he was a post-doc research fellow in the world-renowned Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR) at the University of Surrey, UK. He is being active with European funded research since 2000 and has participated in several EU, national and international projects. Christos was the initiator and the project manager of the IST UNITE project. He holds two patents and has published more than 150 papers in international journals and conferences and chapters in five books. Christos holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Surrey, UK and a B.Eng. from the Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of IET and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Educational and Professional Qualifications

  • PhD, MSc, BEng

Research Interests

Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Issues, Emergency Communications, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Green Communication Algorithms, Beyond 3G Architectures and Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Security

Teaching Area

Internet Wireless Networks, Advanced Wireless Communications and Broadband Networks

Other Professional Activity

Senior MIEEE, MTEE, MIET


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Details

Email:
C.Politis@kingston.ac.uk

Phone:
+44 (0) 208 417 2653

Location:
PR-SOP 115B