By October 2025 I have attracted ~264K € in personal grants, most of which is under competitive calls funded by the European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. I briefly express my gratitude for this in the "About me" tab, where I discuss the responsibility that I believe comes with these grants.
Grants and awards:
A8. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships, by the European Commission, under call HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01. The grant was 187,624.32€, covering my salary and training/traveling costs for 9/2025-8/2027.
This grant is based on a research proposal and on previous merits. Acceptance rate: 15.8%. Score accumulated: 98.2/100. Top 3.9% of submissions for my round (link).
Related to project P10, "RIXISAC: Reflective intelligent surface-assisted, Intelligent, and eXplainable Integrated Sensing and Communication systems"
Related with the peer-reviewed C14 conference paper, and the manuscript R1 that is under review.
Thesis project available, see link!
A7. Juan de la Cierva award, by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. 67.400€ covering part of my salary and training/travelling costs for 2024-2025. Merit-based award and small research proposal, score accumulated: 97.5/100. Link here.
Related with project P9, "NI-OL-XAI: Enabling Network Intelligence through Online Learning and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence"
Related with the peer-reviewed publications J6 (journal) and C10, C11, C12, C13 (conferences).
In the link you can find more information for the research topic of NI-OL-XAI, the publications produced, the thesis supervised, nice talks and outreach events, and others!
A6. Student grant by IEEE ComSoc, to participate in IEEE INFOCOM 2021 as author/presenter. ($950, covering the registration fees – the conference was held online)
Related to publication C6.
A5. Student grant by IFIP, to participate in IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2018 as author/presenter. ($1500, covering the registration fees and part of the travel expenses)
Related to publication C2.
A4. Received research scholarship by TCD, 2017. (4.500€, covering my stipend during my academic visit)
Related to project P2 and publication C3.
A3. Thomaideio Award by NTUA, for publication during undergraduate studies, 2015. (500€)
Related to publications J2 and C0.
A2. “Des tin psifiaka’’ award, by Greek Ministry of Education, for ranking within the top 20% of students accepted in Applied Math and Physics School (NTUA) from national-wide exams, 2009. Ranked 23-th out of ~200 accepted students, exam score: 18.597/20.000. (500€)
A1. “The great moment for education” award, by E.F.G Eurobank, to valedictorians of highschools for achieving highest score upon graduation in greek highschools, 2009. GPA – 19.4/20. (1000€)