Dr. Ilias Politis

Dr Ilias Politis is Research Associate at Industrial Systems Institute of ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece. He received his BSc in Electronic Engineering from Queen Marry College London, UK in 2000, his MSc in Mobile and Personal Communications from King's College London, UK in 2001 and his PhD in Multimedia Communications from the University of Patras Greece in 2009. Since 2022 Dr Politis was a Senior Researcher with Secure Systems Labs of the University of Piraeus, Greece and Senior Research and Development Engineer for InQbit Innovations SRL (iqbit.io) responsible for the company’s Research and Innovation activities. Dr Politis has in the past worked as Senior Researcher at the Wireless Telecommunications Lab. of the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Patras, Greece and the School of Science & Technology in the Hellenic Open University, Greece.

Dr. Politis has been actively involved in all phases of several H2020 projects (TUSTEE, aerOS, ERATOSTHENES, PHYSICS, 5G-EVOLVED, SECRET, SONNET, EMYNOS) and FP7 framework projects (ROMEO, SALUS, FUTON), as well as several national funded research projects. His research is focused on areas such as, Future Internet and Next Generation and Time Sensitive Networking, ID management and Access control, Secure and Trust Networks, where he has published more than 90 peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has been awarded a post-doctoral scholarship under the SIEMENS “Excellence” Program in the field of Telematic Applications by the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), Greece for his PhD thesis. He is a member of the IEEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece.