Apostolos Georgiadis

Apostolos Georgiadis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the B.S. degree in physics and the M.S. degree in telecommunications from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received a Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2002.

He has held various positions in industry in Italy, US and Spain. As a researcher and group leader in Spain for over ten years, he worked on active antennas, coupled oscillators and rectifiers. He has been a EU Marie Curie Global Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, US and an Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University, UK. He is currently with the European Patent Office, the Hague, Netherlands.

His research interests include antennas and microwave electronics, energy harvesting and wireless power transmission, inkjet and 3D printed electronics, millimeter wave systems. He has published more than 200 papers in peer reviewed journals and international conferences.

He has served as Associate Editor in IEEE journals and was founding Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Wireless Power Transfer journal. His work has received best paper awards in international conferences and peer-reviewed journals and he was a recipient of a Nokia Bell Labs prize.