Over the past 24 years, he has managed teams that participated in industry R&D projects and in a large number of EU-funded projects (over 30 in total; 14 just in FP7 and 3 in 6G SNS) with a consortium-wide leading role (including being Technical Manager/Project Coordinator of 11 major EU projects with a total budget of over 55M€). For his group alone, he has raised over 12M€ in funding.

He is a Fellow of the IET (2010), OSA (2012) and of IEEE (2018). He has co-authored over 650 journal articles & conference proceedings papersand (over 420 entries at IEEE Xplore). He served as the Chair of the “Optical Networking” Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society. He was also Chairman of the “Optical Communications” Group at OSA and the “Optical Networking” at IFIP. He has been Chair or member of the organizing committees for major conferences in telecommunications/networking (more than 150). In addition he was a member of the Editorial Boards of several IEEE/OSA Journals (Deputy EiC of JLT).

He has been awarded for pioneering and innovative contributions in the deployment of next generation access networks in Greece.

His published work has received over 13.500 citations (h-index=55 with m-index>2.5). He is included in the “Top H-Index” list of scientists working in the fields of “Computer Science and Electronics” (https://lnkd.in/gYwzYY4), while his articles have received over 200.000 reads at ResearchGate (therefore being one of the most published and read Greek authors in the field of electrical engineering and among the top worldwide on core/access/datacenter networks)