New Research Engineer in Engineering Unit.  Nikos Bartzoudis was born in 1976 in Alexandroupoli, Greece. He finished his B.Sc. in Electronics at the Technical Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Thessaloniki in 2000. Then he carried postgraduate studies in the UK and received his M.Sc. in Digital Communication Systems from Loughborough University in 2001 (M.Sc. project: implementation of a multi-band patch antenna based on the Sierpinski fractals references). The following year he commenced his Ph.D. at the department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of Loughborough University, which was successfully completed in 2006. The core research areas that he investigated include assertion-based monitoring of FPGA-based applications, security issues in programmable networks and concurrent logical analysis of protocol correctness.
 
Nikos has worked 2 years as Research Associate (Loughborough University, UK, 2001-2003) implementing reconfigurable hardware solutions for "Active Networks". He has also worked more than two years as a Senior Research Officer (University of Essex, UK, 2005-2008) in a collaborative multi-university project (i.e. PROSEN: Networking of Distributed Sensors for Proactive Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbines), funded by EPSRC and supported by various industrial partners. He has joined the Engineering Unit of CTTC in January 2008, where he works as senior engineer. The main duties include FPGA-based research and development projects and other additional research initiatives with particular focus on dependable embedded systems.
 
His current research interests include self-testing issues of embedded microprocessors, concurrent monitoring of programmable systems, safety critical systems, dependable computing, condition monitoring, sensor validation and programmable networks. He has supervised M.Sc. projects and he is a reviewer of the IET Computers & Digital Techniques and the International Journal of Computers and Applications. In a certain occasions, he has provided co-ordinating support in various projects of his former employers. Moreover, he is currently involved in writing research proposals for collaborative European projects."