Prof. Petar Popovski

Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received his Dipl.-Ing (1997)and M. Sc. (2000) degrees in communication engineering from the University ofSts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and the Ph.D. degree (2005) from AalborgUniversity. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant(2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), IEEE Fred W. Ellersick prize(2016), IEEE Stephen O. Rice prize (2018), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of IEEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS INCOMMUNICATIONS and Chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee. He was a Member at Large at the Board of Governors in IEEE Communication Society, as well as the General Chair for IEEE Smart GridComm 2018 and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2019. His research interests are in the area of wireless communication and communication theory. He authored the book``Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide'', published by Wiley in 2020.

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