Prof. Spyros Denazis has been a faculty member since 2004 in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Patras, Greece. Between 1996 and 2004, he worked in the telecommunications industry for Intracom S.A. and Hitachi Europe in Cambridge, UK, and Sophia Antipolis, France.
Prof. Denazis currently leads an active research group with a wide range of research activities and European research projects in the areas of 5G/6G, Experimental Testbeds (https://wiki.patras5g.eu/), NFV, SDN, Smart Cities (https://sense.city/ & https://safeamea.gr/) and Cybersecurity. He is currently the Scientific Coordinator of the newly established 5G Competence Centre π-ΝΕΤ (https://www.p-net.gr/) and Project Coordinator of the European research project METACITIES (https://metacities-hub.com/).
One of the major outcomes of his group’s research activity on 5G experimental infrastructures has been the open software Openslice, which was adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) (https://osl.etsi.org/).