
George Goussetis
Board Memeber
George Goussetis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1976. He graduated Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1998 and obtained a PhD from University of Westminster in 2002. In 2002 he also graduated B.Sc. in physics (first class) from University College London, UK.
In 1998, he joined Space Engineering (now Airbus DS) in Italy, as RF Engineer and in 1999 the University of Westminster, UK, as a Research Assistant. He has held academic positions at Queen’s University of Belfast and Heriot-Watt University, where he is currently the Associate Executive Dean for Enterprise. George has held research fellowships from the Onassis foundation in 2001, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering between 2006-2011, and the European Commission MSCA in 2011-12 and again in 2014-17. He is the recipient of several awards including the 2011 European Space Agency young engineer of the year prize, the 2016 Bell Labs prize and the best IEEE Proceedings paper 2024. He served as Associate Editor to the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters between 2014-18 and as Chair of the European Conference of Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) 2024.
George’s research interests are in the area of microwave and antenna components and subsystems with particular focus on their applications in satellite systems. In these areas, George has authored or co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed papers, one book, eight book chapters and six patents.