Stavros Kotsopoulos is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras. He received his B.Sc. in Physics in the year 1975 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki., and in the year 1984 got his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras. He did his postgraduate studies in the University of Bradford in United Kingdom, and he is an M.Phil and Ph.D. holder since 1978 and 1985 correspondingly.
He is a member of the academic staff of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras and holds the position of Professor. Since 2004, is the Director of the Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory (WTL) and develops his professional life teaching and doing research in the scientific area of Telecommunications, with interest in cellular mobile communications, Wireless Networks, interference, satellite communications, telematics applications, communication services and antennae design. Moreover he is the (co)author of the book titled "mobile telephony" and (co)author of the book titled “Handbook of Research in Heterogeneous Next Generation Networking: Innovations & Platforms”. He has offered consultant services to various Telecom Organizations and Bodies in Greece and he is member of various Technical Committees. The research activity is documented by more than 4300 publications in scientific journals and proceedings of International Conferences. Professor Kotsopoulos has been the leader of several international and many national research projects. Finally, he is member of the Greek Physicists Society and member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.