Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton & Professor of Optical Communications
University of Southampton PhD, Optical Fibre Communications PhD, Optical Fibre Communications University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) MSc, Communications Engineering MSc, Communications Engineering University of Patras Dipl. Eng., Electrical & Electronic Engineering Dipl. Eng., Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- Professor Petropoulos is the Module Leader of OPTO6010: Advanced Fibre Telecommunication Technologies
- Editor-In-Chief, IET Optoelectronics Editor-In-Chief, IET Optoelectronics The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Professor Periklis Petropoulos FOSA, graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Patras. He received an MSc degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and a PhD degree in Optical Telecommunications from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton.
He is currently a Deputy Director of the ORC, where he works as a Professor of Optical Communications. His research interests lie in the fields of optical communications, all-optical signal processing and novel fibre and waveguide technologies. He has been an investigator of research projects worth >£33M, funded from a variety of sources, including the EU, EPSRC and the industry.
Periklis was the Programme Manager of the multi-million-pound EPSRC Programme Grants Photonic Hyperhighway (2010-2016) and Airguide Photonics (2016-), of which he is also the Primary Investigator.
He is a founding member of the Management Board of the UK’s National Dark Fibre Facility (NDFF), an installed fibre network dedicated to research purposes. His research has produced >570 publications in technical journals and conference proceedings, including several invited and post-deadline papers (these are conference announcements of great urgency and significance) at major international conferences.
Prof Petropoulos is the Editor-in-Chief of IET Optoelectronics. He has served both as member and sub-committee chair of the Technical Programme Committees for several international conferences, including the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) and the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) conference; these are the two largest international conferences in the field.
Professor Periklis Petropoulos has supervised 17 PhD theses to completion so far. He is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America).
Research Interests- Optical communications,
- All-optical signal processing,
- Novel fibre and waveguide technologies
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