Athanasios (Thanasis) G. Kanatas is a Professor at the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Piraeus, Greece, https://www.ds.unipi.gr/en/faculty/kanatas-en/) and the Director of the Telecommunication Systems Laboratory. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree in Satellite Communication Engineering from the University of Surrey, Surrey, UK in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in Mobile Satellite Communications from NTUA, Greece in February 1997. In 1996, he joined the Mobile Radio-Communications Laboratory as a research associate. From 1999 to 2002 he was with the Institute of Communication & Computer Systems responsible for the technical management of various research projects. In 2000, he became a member of the Board of Directors of OTESAT S.A. In 2002, he joined the University of Piraeus as an Assistant Professor. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is the author of 6 books in the field of wireless and satellite communications in Greek and/or English language. He has been the technical manager of several European and National R&D projects. His current research interests include mmWave communications in 6G systems, the development of new waveforms and digital techniques for next generation wireless and satellite communications systems; joint communication and sensing techniques, wireless channel characterization, simulation, and modeling for land, aerial and satellite communication systems; antenna design and array beamforming techniques; wireless networks performance analysis using stochastic geometry tools; and UAV-assisted wireless communications.
He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 2002. In 1999, he was elected Chairperson of the Communications Society of the Greek Section of IEEE. From 2013 to 2017, he has served as Dean of the School of Information & Communication Technologies of the University of Piraeus, Greece. In 2021 he elected delegate of Region 15 (Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Turkey) in European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP). He is an Editor of IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, and Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Antennas & Propagation.