Konstantina S. Nikita

Konstantina S. Nikita, M.Eng., M.D., Ph.D., is a full Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), the Irene McCulloch Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, and a 2022/2023 Global Chair of the University of Bath, UK. Dr. Nikita is the director of the Mobile Radiocommunications Laboratory and founder and director of the Biomedical Simulations and Imaging Laboratory at NTUA. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Founding Fellow of the European Association of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES), and a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She has served as chair of the LS7 Consolidator Grant Panel of the European Research Council (ERC), for granting investigator-driven frontier research in the domain of life sciences. Her research interests include biomedical data science, medical decision support, medical telemetry, mobile health, biomedical image computing and analytics, physiological systems modeling and identification. She has received various awards for her research, among which the Bodossakis Foundation Academic Prize.

Dr Nikita has received her M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, her M.D. from the University of Athens, and her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.