George S. Tombras

George S. Tombras (M'88–SM'03) was born in Athens, Greece, in 1956. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics from Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, the M.Sc. degree in electronics from University of Southampton, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree from Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, in 1979, 1981, and 1988, respectively. From 1981 to 1989 he was Teaching and Research Assistant and, from 1989 to 1991, Lecturer at the Laboratory of Electronics, Physics Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. During 1985–1986, he served his military service as a Research Assistant at the Research Center for National Defense. From 1990 to 1991, he was on sabbatical leave at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Science Research “Demokritos,” Athens, where he was involved in various European Union R&D projects related to Mobile Communication Systems. Since 1991, he has been with the Laboratory of Electronics, Faculty of Physics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, where currently is an Associate Professor of Electronics and Director of the Department of Electronics, Computers, Telecommunications and Control. His research interests include Mobile Communications, Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems, as well as Instrumentation, Measurements and Audio Engineering. He is the author of the textbook Introduction to Electronics (Diavlos, 1999) (in Greek) and has authored or co-authored more than 80 journal and conference refereed papers and many technical reports.