DR. GIANNIS KANAKIS
Short Bio
Dr. Giannis Kanakis graduated from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2011. His Diploma thesis concerned the experimental investigation of Mode-Locked Lasers in Optical Time Division Multiplexing systems. He received his PhD in 2021 from the Photonics Communications Research Laboratory (PCRL) of NTUA, working on the development and experimental evaluation of Photonic Integrated Circuits and modules for intra-datacenter interconnects and HPCs. His research interests lie on the development of Photonic Integrated Circuits for next generation Datacenter interconnects, metropolitan and access networks as well as Software Defined photonic subsystems. He has been actively involved in in several collaborative projects in FP7 (MIRAGE, SPIRIT and ORCHESTRA) and H2020 (QAMeleon, TWILIGHT and PICaboo). Dr. Giannis Kanakis is the author or co-author of more than 30 publications in journals and presentations in reputable optical fiber technology conferences.
Research Areas
System and component level design of photonic structures and systems, PICs for datacenter interconnects, metropolitan networks and PONs, Software Defined Networks.
Our team

Prof. Hercules Avramopoulos
PROFESSOR, HEAD OF PCRL

Dr. Costis Christogiannis
PROJECT MANAGER

Dr. Maria Massaouti
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Dimitrios Apostolopoulos
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Christos Kouloumentas
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Charalampos Zervos
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Maria Spyropoulou
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Sani Paraskevopoulou
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Giannis Giannoulis
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Giannis Poulopoulos
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Nikolaos Lyras
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Panagiotis Groumas
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Lefteris Gounaridis
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Giannis Kanakis
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Christos Tsokos
SENIOR RESEARCHER

Dr. Aristeidis Stathis
Senior Researcher

Panagiotis Toumasis
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Konstantina Kanta
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Adam Raptakis
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Efstathios Andrianopoulos
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Evridiki Kyriazi
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Argiris Ntanos
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Dimitris Nikolaidis
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

George Syriopoulos
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Dimitris Gounaridis
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Giorgos Brestas
RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Adamantia Maria Grammatikaki
Research Scientist