He received his M.Eng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Ph.D. degree from Imperial College London in 1998 and 2003 respectively. For two years he worked as Head of Micropower Design in a technology start-up company, Toumaz Technology. In 2004 he joined Johns Hopkins University as a Postdoctoral Fellow, before joining the University of Cyprus in 2005. His main areas of expertise are ultra-low-power analog circuit design and mixed-signal hardware design, which he has applied to implantable and bio-inspired systems. His research interests include implantable biomedical devices, bio-inspired electronic systems, brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs), inertial and optical sensors and related systems.