Professor Dimitra Simeonidou

Professor Dimitra Simeonidou is the Head of the High Performance Networks Group which includes the Photonic Networks Laboratory and the newly established Network Media Laboratory at the University of Essex, UK. In 1987 and 1989 received a BSc and MSc from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and in 1994 a PhD degree from the University of Essex. She joined Essex as an academic in 1998 after four years with Alcatel Submarine Networks. While in Alcatel, she held the post of Senior Principle Engineer and contributed to the introduction of WDM in long haul submarine links and pioneered the design and deployment of optical add drop multiplexers. At Essex, she is leading a group of 30 researchers and PhD students and currently involved in 12 EPSRC and EU funded projects with a total current funding of over £5M. Her research focusing in the fields of optical networks, Grid and cloud computing and Future Internet. She is a leading member of the international optical networking and Grid computing research communities and chairs standardisation groups and forums in the relevant bodies. She was a co-founder of the ilotron technology start up (developing optical switching equipment) and she is actively working on a number of knowledge transfer initiatives. She is the author and co-author of over 350 papers, 11 patents and several standardisation documents.

Contact Information

Telephone

+44(0)1206873496

FAX

+44(0)1206872900

Postal address

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering - University of Essex - Wivenhoe Park - Colchester

           CO43SQ - UK

Electronic mail :

dsimeo@essex.ac.uk