Professor George Goussetis received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Westminster, London, UK, in 2002. In 2002 he also graduated B.Sc. in physics (first class) from University College London (UCL), UK.
In 1998, he joined the Space Engineering, Rome, Italy, as RF Engineer and in 1999 the Wireless Communications Research Group, University of Westminster, UK, as a Research Assistant. Between 2002 and 2006 he was a Senior Research Fellow at Loughborough University, UK. He was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK between 2006 and 2009 and a Reader (Associate Professor) with Queen’s University Belfast, UK, between 2009 and 2012. In 2013 he joined Heriot-Watt as a Reader, now He is a full Professor, the Head of the Institute of Sensors, Signals, and Systems (ISSS) and the Chair of Microwave and Antenna Engineering Group. He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers three book chapters and three patents.
Prof. Goussetis has held a research fellowship from the Onassis foundation in 2001, a research fellowship from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering between 2006-2011 and a European Marie-Curie experienced researcher fellowship in 2011-12. In 2010 he was visiting Professor in UPCT, Spain. He is the co-recipient of the 2011 European Space Agency young engineer of the year prize, the 2011 EuCAP best student paper prize and the 2012 EuCAP best antenna theory paper prize. He has been the coordinator of 3 multi-Million Euro European Commission’s H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – the European Industrial Doctorate programme.
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