Dr. Theodore Zahariadis is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Development, Agri-Food and Natural Resources Management. He received his PhD from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) with a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) and his Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the School of Engineering of the University of Patras.

He serves as:

• President of the Institute for Sustainable Bioinnovation (I.B.B.) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• President of the Scientific Supervisory Council (SSC) of the Model and Experimental Schools of Evia.

He has served as

• President and Professor at the Department of Agicultural Development, Agri-Food and Natural Resources Management of the National University of Athens (11/2022-08/2025)
• Member of the Senate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (11/2012-08/2025)
• Director of the Postgraduate Program "Intelligent Management of Renewable Energy Sources Systems" (12/2014-11/2016).
• Member of the Senate of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Central Greece (10/2016-1/2019)
• Director of the Postgraduate Program "Intelligent Management of Renewable Energy Sources Systems" (12/2014-11/2016).
• Deputy President of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Chalkida (9/2014-8/2016).

He is also a member of

• Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE)
• Panhellenic Association of Graduate Computer and Informatics Engineers
• IEEE Communications Society
• IEEE Computer Society
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• European Future Internet Assembly (FIA)
• European Future Content Networks (FCN) Group
• European Media Delivery Platform (MDP) cluster
• European Future Media & 3D Internet (FM3DTI) Task Force
• Networked & Electronic Media (NEM) Technology Platform
• Networked European Services and Software Initiative (NESSI) Technology Platform
• Mobile & Wireless Communications Technology Platform (eMobility) Technology Platform

Since 1995, Dr. Zahariadis has served as Principal Investigator, Technical Director and Coordinator in over 60 competitive research projects funded by the European Union (HORIZON, EDF, H2020, FP7, FP6, ESPRIT, ACTS, IST/ICT), while he is now Technical Director of the Horizon Europe AgriDataValue project, an emblematic project with 31 partners from 14 countries implementing the digital transformation of the Agricultural Sector at the European Union level.

He has supervised numerous Diploma Theses within the framework of undergraduate and postgraduate Study Programs, while he is a supervisor or member of a three-member committee in many Doctoral Theses

He has worked at the Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) as Chief Telecommunications Engineer, at Ellemedia Technologies Ltd as Technical Director, at Lucent Technologies/Bell-Laboratories (USA) as an External Associate, as well as at a number of companies and organizations as an Expert/Technology Consultant. His research interests focus on the areas of Energy Efficiency, Smart Grids, Wireless Sensor Networks and Precision Agriculture. Dr. Zachariadis has published more than 250 papers in journals, books and conferences and has more than 4,800 citations (H-Index 35).

Since 2001, he has served as an evaluator of many EU proposals, many open calls and as a reviewer/rapporteur in many projects (e.g. eperSpace, TEAHA, AMIGO, ESTIA, ARENA, SOA4ALL, BEST ENERGY, CHOREOS, OCEAN, BETAAS, Smart Campus, Webinos, PaSaage, IntrePiD, Ascetic).

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