Optical wireless communications, Wireless communications theory, Stochastic geometry models in wireless networks

Harilaos G. Sandalidis was born in Florina, Greece, in 1972. He received the five-year Diploma degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering and the M.Sc. degree in Business Administration at the Production Engineering and Management Dept. from the Technical University of Crete, Greece, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He also received the M.Sc. degree in Radiofrequency and Microwave Communications and the Ph.D. degree in the Telecommunications area at Electronics and Telecommunications (former Electronics and Electrical engineering) Dept. from the University of Bradford, UK, in 1996 and 2002, respectively. From 1996 to 2001, he was a research assistant at the Telecommunications Systems Institute of Crete, Greece, working towards his Ph.D. degree in collaboration with the University of Bradford. After his military service, he joined TEMAGON, the technology consulting branch of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Group), in 2002, where he was involved in the risk mitigation program for the 2004 Olympic Telecommunication Network in collaboration with Telcordia Technologies, Inc. From 2003 to 2009, he worked as a senior investigator for the Greek Ombudsman Office. In March 2009, he joined the Dept. of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Central Greece, as a Lecturer. He is now a Professor in the same Dept., which currently belongs to the University of Thessaly. His significant research interest lies in optical wireless networking, including free-space optics, underwater optical networks, and visible light communications.

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