Michalis is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Multiple-Antenna Systems at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He obtained his PhD from University of Edinburgh followed by research positions at Munich University of Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Michalis’ research interests span signal processing for wireless communications, massive MIMO systems, hardware-constrained communications, and performance analysis of fading channels. He has co-authored some 150 papers on these topics.

Michalis and his coauthors received the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2017. He was the recipient of the 2011 IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region and a co-recipient of the 2006 IEEE Communications Chapter Project Prize for the best M.Sc. dissertation in the area of communications. He was co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

He has a grant portfolio in excess of £4.7m supported by EPSRC, EU, MoD, and Royal Academy of Engineering.