Konstantinos Giannakopoulos was born in Patras, Greece in 1969. He received the BSc degree in Physics from University of Patras in 1991 and the MSc and PhD degrees in Electronics from the Univ. of Patras in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He received one more MSc degree in Electronics and Information Processing from the Univ. of Patras in 2014. He speaks English and German.
He is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP) at the Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras and a Tutor at the Digital Systems & Media Computing Lab, School of Sciences & Technology, Hellenic Open University. He has been a Tutor at the Depts of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, the Western Greece University of Applied Sciences (TEI). He has also been an Educational Planning Coordinator (school counselor), the Head of Technical Vocational Education Team at the Secondary Education Department of Achaia Prefecture and the Headmaster of the 2nd Vocational School of Patras.
He has been a member of the IEEE of CAS Society since 1997 and has served as reviewer of international journals and conferences (Int. J. of Electronics, J. of Circuits Systems & Computers, Circuits Systems & Signal Processing, DSP-2011, ICECS-2010, EUSIPCO-2009, ISSCS-2009, DSP-2009). He has written 5 books and published 21 works in various international journals and conferences that received about 60 citations. He has also created electronic and audiovisual learning material for the Hellenic Open University (Alternative Educational Resources).
His current research interests include design and implementation of nonlinear electronic circuits and especially chaotic and hyperchaotic oscillators with applications to analog cryptography. He is also interested in applications of chaos (like synchronization and controlling of chaotic oscillators) and design of continuous-time active filters with opamps, OTAs and OTRAs. Recently he is involved with work with FPAAs.
