George Athanasiou

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I was born in Athens, Attica, Greece on 1986 and lived in Thebes, Boeotia, Greece utill August 2003. In September 2003 I entered the Electronic & Computer Engineering Department of Technical University of Crete, Greece and in July 2008 I received my 5-year Dipl.-Ing.(3+2, equivalent to M.Sc.). In September 2008 I was accepted as PhD Candidate - Researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Patras, Greece, where in May 2013 I earned my PhD in the field of Hardware Architectures and VLSI Implementations for Cryptographic Embedded Systems. From then on I was a Post-Doctoral researcher in the same department until August 2013. In September 2013 I joined Antcor S.A as Cryptography ASIC Design Engineer. In August 2014 I joined u-blox (acquisition of Antcor S.A. from u-blox - Branded as u-blox Athens S.A.) as Cryptographic ASIC Design Engineer and then as IC Design Engineer with specialization in Security and Cryptography. From April 2014 to December 2014 (during my 9-month obligatory military service) I was appointed as Software Engineer for Security Applications in Directorate of Cyber-Defense, of Hellenic National Defense General Staff.