Professor Vasilis Maglaris National Technical University of Athens  School of Electrical & Computer Engineering  Division of Communication, Electronics & Information Systems

Vasilis Maglaris is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) since 1989. He holds an Engineering Degree from NTUA (Athens, Greece, 1974) and a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University (New York, USA, 1979). Before joining the faculty at NTUA, he held industrial and academic positions in the USA for ten years, all in advanced electronic communications.

Apart from teaching and performing research on Computer Networks, he was responsible for developing the NTUA Campus LAN and for the establishment of GRNET (the Greek National Research & Education Network - NREN). He served as GRNET's Chairman from its inception (1995) until June 2004. He served on the board of the Greek National Regulatory Authority on Telecommunications and Posts for two five-year terms (1995 – 2005).

From 1994 to 1996, he was the Executive Director of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), a front research organization consisting of six Research Institutes, also hosting the Greek National Documentation Centre and operating the largest library of scientific periodicals in Greece.

Since October 2004, he serves as the Chairman of the National Research & Education Networks Policy Committee (NREN PC). The NREN PC harmonizes policies amongst the 34 NRENs in the extended European Research Area; it is also responsible for the Pan-European advanced network platform GEANT and its current upgrade GEANT2, the Next Generation Internet initiative of the European research & academic community.

He is currently directing the Network Management & Optimal Design (NETMODE) Laboratory within the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at NTUA. He authored more than 100 research papers, regularly delivers lectures on Internet advances and supervised more than a dozen Doctoral theses in the USA and Greece.