GOUDOS K. Sotirios is a Professor at the Department of Physics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1991 and the M.Sc. of Postgraduate Studies in Electronics in 1994 both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2001, he received the Ph.D. in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in 2005 the M.Sc. in Information Systems from the University of Macedonia, Greece. In 2011, he obtained a Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests include antenna and microwave structure design, evolutionary algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, and semantic web technologies. He has participated as Guest Editor or Lead Guest editor in several special issues in international journals. He has co-organized special sessions at international conferences.

Prof. Goudos is the director of the ELEDIA@AUTH lab member of the ELEDIA Research Center Network. Prof. Goudos is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Telecom open-access journal (MDPI publishing). Prof. Goudos is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE ACCESS, and IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (IJAP), the Electronics open-access journal (Microwave and Wireless Communications Section), and the Technologies open-access journal. Prof. Goudos is currently serving as Chapter/AG coordinator for IEEE Greece Section.  He has been elected IEEE Greece Section Secretary 2022 and IEEE Greece Section Vice-Chair for 2023-2024.

He was honored as an IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor from 2019 to 2023. He has also served as a member of the Technical Program Committees in several IEEE and non-IEEE conferences. Prof. Goudos is a member of the IEEE (Senior member), the IEICE, the Greek Physics Society, the Technical Chamber of Greece, and the Greek Computer Society. He is the author of the book “Emerging Evolutionary Algorithms for Antennas and Wireless Communications”, Institution of Engineering & Technology, 2021.

Prof. Goudos is included in the Stanford University list from 2020 to 2023 “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, which contains the top 100,000 scientists & top 2% of scientists for every subfield.