Prof. Dr. Ioannis Tomkos
Fellow IEEE, Fellow IET, Fellow OSA
Dr. Ioannis Tomkos is Professor of Optical Communications at the ECE Department of University of
Patras. In the past he held various academic and managerial positions, of increasing responsibility, at
companies and academic institutions around the world (e.g. USA, Spain, France, Cyprus). His
research is focusing on optical networks and 5G wireless networks. His research group has
participated and led numerous R&D projects on the relevant fields, while the outcomes of his
activities resulted in over 650 co-authored scientific archival articles, with over 420 entries at
IEEEXplore, that have received over 12.000 citations (h-factor=52) as per Google Scholar & has
received about 160.000 reads at ResearchGate. For his scientific achievement he has been elected as
Fellow of all 3 major ECE societies (IET-2010, OSA - 2012 and IEEE - 2018).