1. Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s) ANDREAS - ALVERTOS AGIUS
Address Greece
Mobile +30 6944541561
E-mail(s) a3eng@yahoo.co.uk
https://gr.linkedin.com/in/andreas-agius-360b49
Nationality Greek
Date of birth 13 July 1969
Gender Male
Areas of Specialisation &
Experience
• Spectrum Engineering and Administration (Management, Monitoring, Policy, Legislation)
• RF Engineering (Measurements, Interference Investigation, Antennas, Propagation)
• Wireless Telecommunications (Mobile, Satellite, Broadcasting)
• Team Coordination
• Project management
• Public Administration
Work experience
Dates 13 October 2003 → onwards
Occupation or position held Scientist Specialist (Senior Spectrum Engineer)
Main activities and responsibilities • RF Engineering
• Spectrum monitoring, using the National Management and Spectrum Monitoring System
(ESDEF), to ensure that Frequency users and License holders are operating according to the
technical data of their licence, without causing interference to other users and/or in other
frequency bands.
• Monitoring of radio spectrum to detect violations, enforce Radio Regulations and solve
interference issues (according to the Greek/European Law and ITU recommendations and
regulations) in National and International level through the evaluation of data collected during
extended measurement campaigns and propagation simulations (e.g.).
o Broadcasting to Civil Aviation and Mobile Telephony
o Analogue/LTE to Digital TV
o VHF to Satellite systems (COSPAS-SARSAT)
o Links to Satellite Broadcasting reception
o Links to Links
o ALE to HF airport radio
• Preparation of technical reviews on the co-existence of different wireless services (e.g.
Broadcasting and Civil Aviation)
• Participation in ITU Working Party 1C and contribution on the Evaluation of Transportable
Direction Finding Equipment
• Spectrum Management
• Member of working groups in Policy Issues and Legislation Amendments, contributing to the
following:
o Draft law on EETT Regulation on Broadcasting Antenna Farms
o Draft Legislative proposal on the installation and licensing of local (in small villages) TV
repeaters.
o Study and legislative proposals of the different issues involved on the licensing,
installation and operation of antenna structures–facilitation of mobile telephony base
station antenna licensing
o Law, Ministerial Decisions and EETT’s Regulations on Analogue to Digital Terrestrial TV
Switch Over (Chairman of the advisory to EETT’s President Committee on the “Progress
of Digital TV internationally, and the legislative steps needed for the successful Greek
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2. transition”).
o Ministerial Decision on Broadcasting (FM Radio, Digital TV) Frequency Maps
o Law on secondary transmission locations for FM Radio Stations (4155/2013, 4313/2014)
o Harmonization of analogue TV channels according to article 9 of law 3548/2007.
o Frequency re-farming of certain services from specific frequency bands in order to
facilitate the auction of frequencies for mobile telephony and Digital Dividend
o Tender and Contract document for the Network provider of Digital TV
o EETT Regulation on Frequency Licensing of TV station under the general authorisation
regime
o Telecommunication acts 3431/2006, 4070/2012, 4313/2014
o Public Consultations on Broadcasting, Antennas, Licensing
o Analysis report for the Greek Market 18 (Broadcasting) (2007).
• International representation
Member of the Greek delegation in ITU RRC’04, RRC’06 (Digital TV), ITU WRC’15, ITU-R
Working Party 1C (2014-2016), represented EETT in the inaugural meetings of the Greek
PRS task force for Galileo.
• Spectrum Enforcement
• Coordinator of the Broadcasting Group within the Spectrum Monitoring Department since
2005
o Evaluate complains on spectrum usage, interference, low quality service, extended
coverage
o Plan and conduct certain type of measurements according to national and international
standards
o Secure compliance with the law in cooperation with the legal Department by
► offering information and legal advice,
► resolving regulatory disputes between communications providers,
► taking administrative measures : issue warnings,, issue fixed penalty notices, issue
simple cautions or report to the Public Prosecutor with a view to prosecution,
► cooperating with broadcasting stakeholders, governmental agencies/ministries and
policy makers
► drafting proposals on Legislative amendments and Policy issues
• Management
• Managing a Team of five highly experienced and educated engineers
• Project management
• Preparation / Evaluation of tenders
• Preparation of technical training
• Telecommunications Expert
• Technical Evaluator of the Major Governmental Project C4I – a telecommunication,
information and security system installed procured and installed for the 2004 Olympic Games
– appointed in 2012 by the Greek Supreme Court. The C4I’s subsystems – Airborne
(helicopter & zeppelin) wireless camera network, Harbour sonars, Tetra, AVL, Wireless
cameras-VSAT-Radio on Coast Guards Vessels, AIS – were evaluated for the integrity of their
implementation.
• Technical Evaluator of the progress of industrial research project (Intelligent MIMO base
station antenna system) funded by the Greek Government and EU, appointed by the
Directorate of Innovation and Technology of the Ministry of Education
Name and address of employer HELLENIC TELECOMMUNICATION AND POST COMMISSION (EETT)
Department of Spectrum Control and Monitoring, Spectrum Directorate
Kifisias 60, 15125 Marousi (Greece)
Type of business or sector National Telecommunication and Post Regulatory Authority
Dates 10 January 2002 - 10 October 2003
Occupation or position held RF Measurement Support and RF Field Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities • Assess and formation of specifications and solutions in RF test & measurement problems.
• Analysis of requirements and proposal of suitable measuring methods and set of instruments
(spectrum & network analysers, power meters, etc) for telecomm/RF/microwave measurement
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3. needs.
• After sales support and training of clients both in Greece (OTE, COSMOTE, INTRACOM, Civil
Aviation, EETT, Universities etc) and in Balkan Countries.
• Member of the technical group of the company, involved on the design, installation and
commissioning of wireless repeater networks for the public services (TETRA, VHF) and
FM Radio in series of tunnels in major Greek Motorways, as an RF Field Engineer.
Name and address of employer G-SYSTEMS SA
Immitou 76, 11634 Athens (Greece)
Type of business or sector Spectrum measurement Instruments sales and support, Wireless network projects
Dates October 1999 - September 2004
Occupation or position held Freelance Technical Translator
Main activities and responsibilities • Freelance translation,
• Member of the editing team and translator of the Greek edition of "Scientific American"
• Translation of technical manuals during military service in the Greek Army
Type of business or sector publication
Dates 01 May 1997 – 29 February 2000
Occupation or position held Research Fellow
Main activities and responsibilities • Research in the area of 3rd Generation Mobile Terminals. The project was part of the Mobile VCE
UK (a collaborative, not-for-profit, industrial-academic partnership, which undertakes industrially-
led, strategic research, innovation and application of communications and information
technologies).
 Mathematical analysis, design, simulation, construction, feeding, matching and
measuring antenna structures
 Development and background research of the Intelligent Quadrifilar Helix Antenna (I-
QHA), capable to adapt its performance to variations of the environment, satellite
system, signal depolarisation and user interaction. The antenna system (based on the
QHA design) uses embedded control to be matched in different frequency bands, to
counter out the detuning effects caused by the user and to offer a diversity gain
improvement of up to 14 dB in heavily shadowed environments Two international
patents were awarded.
 Introduction of a new parameter called Effective Statistical G/T (ESGuT). This
parameter describes the downlink performance of a non-GEO satellite personal
communication network (SPCN), taking into account the performance of the antenna on
the mobile, the average effect of the environment, the handling of the handsets by the
user and the satellite orbit statistics. Hence, the overall wireless system (satellite,
environment, user shadowing, antenna pattern) is described by a simple arithmetic
value.
 Contribution to COST 260 “Smart Antennas” project
 Contribution to COST 255 “Radiowave propagation modelling for new satellite
communication services at Ku-band and above” project
• Other projects conducted during the same period:
 Design of a low profile antenna for satellite mobile phones for the ICO satellite system
(NERA, Norway)
 Measurement and analysis of the depolarisation of the satellite to mobile signal created
by an urban environment (VCE, UK)
 Measurement and mathematical modelling (in Matlab) of the received noise temperature
by a given antenna, in a given environment and calculation of the figure of merit (G/T).
Introduction of a new parameter called Effective Statistical G/T (ESGuT) which
describes the performance of the overall wireless system (satellite, environment, user
shadowing, antenna pattern) with a simple arithmetic value (VCE, UK)
 Study and software development (in Matlab) of a system being capable of detecting
sources of wide bandwidth noise which affect the quality of received TV signal (Radio
Communication Agency, UK)
 Study of a low frequency antenna with variable electrical characteristics to be used in
communications between geostationary satellite and submarine (Thomson-Marconi, UK)
 Study and measurement of the human head and antenna interaction (VCE, UK)
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4.  Study and design of several type of antennas in different frequency ranges used in
measurement campaigns for different wireless telecommunication systems (CCSR, UK).
• Management of research projects, preparation of tenders and preparation of specifications for
laboratory equipment.
• Supervision of the Anechoic Chamber and the RF Lab
• Supervision of Final year and MSc Antenna projects
Name and address of employer Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR), University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH (United Kingdom)
Type of business or sector Research centre / Academia
Additional information
Patents :
1. Agius, A.A., Saunders S.R., "Adaptive Multifilar Antenna", International Patent H01Q
11/08,3/26.5/00, No: WO 1999/041803, 19 August 1999
2. Leach S.M., Agius A.A., Saunders S.R. “Adaptive Multifilar Antenna II”, International Patent H01Q
1/36,11/8, 3/24, 3/26, No: WO 2001/018908, 15 March 2001
Journal Papers
i. Agius, A.A., Saunders, " Effective Statistical G/T (ESGuT) A Parameter describing the performance
for non-GEO Satellite Systems" Electronics Letters 17th September 1998, Vol.34, No.19, pp.1814-
1816
ii. Leach S.M, Agius A.A., Saunders S.R, “The Intelligent Quadrifilar Helix Antenna” ,IEE Proc. on
Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation vol. 147, no. 3, pp. 219-223, June 2000
iii. Leach S.M., Agius A.A., Stavrou S., Saunders S.R. “Diversity performance of the Intelligent
Quadrifilar Helix Antenna”, IEE Proc. on Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation vol. 147, no. 4, pp.
305-310, Aug. 2000
Other papers
• 1 conference paper on Teleradiology
• 4 conference papers on the performance and design of the Quadrifilar Helix Antenna
• 1 conference paper on Translation
• 2 conference papers on Minimizing the effect of a radiating antenna to the human head
• 2 conference papers on Propagation
 Measurement of the Polarisation State of Satellite to Mobile Signals in Scattering
Environments"
 Prediction of Downlink Effective Statistical G/T in Satellite PCN
• 2 conference papers on Intelligent Antennas for satellite PCN
• 2 Invited Conference papers on Intelligent Antennas (I-QHA)
• 2 Contributions to COST final reports (COST 260 & COST 255)
• 1 contribution to ITU-R Working Party 1 C on The evaluation of Transportable Spectrum
monitoring equipment (2015)
Academic Education
Dates October 1994 - October 1999 (10/94 – 4/97 full time, 5/97 – 10/99 part time)
Title of qualification awarded PhD
Principal subjects / occupational skills
covered
Antennas and propagation
Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems
RF measurements
thesis: “Antennas for Handheld Satellite Personal Communicators”
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
University of Surrey
United Kingdom
Dates October 1993 - September 1994
Title of qualification awarded MSc in Satellite Communication Engineering
Principal subjects / occupational skills
covered
satellite and terrestrial mobile communication systems
thesis: " A Simple Teleradiology System Via Satellite"
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
University of Surrey
United Kingdom
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5. Dates October 1987 - July 1993
Title of qualification awarded Diploma of Electrical Engineering (5 years course)
Principal subjects / occupational skills
covered
Electrical Engineering
Telecommunications, Computing
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
University of Patras
Patras (Greece)
Level in national or international
classification
7.55/10
Other
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
2016 on line course
Earth Observation from Space: The Optical View (ESA – Futurelearn.com)
Monitoring the Oceans From Space, (EUMETSAT – Futurelearn.com)
2016 (two day course)
Legal Framework on Public Contract for the procurement of Goods and Services
Project Training & Consulting, organised by EETT
2013 (three day course)
Frequency Coordination Workshop ,
ITU-R, organised by EETT
2012 (three day course)
“Digital TV – Theory and Measurement Techniques”
ManderCom UK” organised by EETT
2011 (day seminar)
“Loudness Workshop” technical seminar
European Broadcasting Union, Geneva
2010 (one week seminar)
“Managing European Projects – National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)”
Seminar by “PRIORITY Business Intelligence” organised by EETT
2007 (one week training course)
“Measures and Protection against Electric Shock in places where Radio Transmitters are
operating”
technical training by the Greek Public Power Corporation S.A. (2007)
2007 (one week training course)
“Measures and Protection from Electric and Magnetic Fields in places where Radio
Transmitters are operating”
technical seminar by the Greek Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) (2007)
2006 (one week seminar)
“Project Management”
seminar by “Planning SA” organized by EETT
2006 (one week seminar)
“Quality Management System, Models of Business Excellence, Methodology of Internal
Inspections”,
seminar by “IAPETOS consultants of Development and Technology” organized by EETT (2006)
May 2000 – August 2000
Diploma of Wired Telecommunication Systems Technician
Greek Army’s Telecommunication School
1999 (one week training)
Microwave Measurements
Training Course organised by IEE at NPL, UK
1996 (one week training)
Vacation school on RF circuits and system design
Training Course organised by IEE at the University of Surrey, UK
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6. Scholarships and Honours • 1998 INMARSAT/University of Surrey Research Excellence award for my research on the
Quadrifilar Helix Antenna as part of the integrated satellite/terminal/environment system
• 1994-1997 Sponsored PhD studies by NOKIA UK.
• 1988-1992 Scholarship awards from the Greek Foundation of Scholarships, University of Patras
• 1984-1987 Best student award and Honours from the Greek Ministry of Education
Personal skills and
competences
Mother tongue(s) GREEK
Other language(s)
Self-assessment Understanding Speaking W r i t i n g
European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user
French A2 Basic User B1 Basic User A2 Basic User A2 Basic User B1 Basic User
(*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level
Social skills and competences • Team spirit either as a supporting or as a leading member. I have collaborated successfully with
• stakeholders and experts of various disciplines in working groups preparing legislative
and spectrum changes concerning spectrum and broadcasting management in Greece
• researchers from different institutions to deliver joint deliverables in VCE UK-funded and
EU COST projects
• industrial and Academic clients in Greece and in Balkan States assessing their
requirements and serving them with the best possible solution (technical and financial)
• Enthusiastic and highly motivated for any new project and technology.
• Strong communication skills both orally (conference and working group presentations) and written
(progress reports and scientific papers)
• Good listener and supportive co-worker.
• Very good ability to adapt to multicultural environments, gained through my work experience in UK
and my multicultural background
Organisational skills and competences  Leadership and organisational skills (currently responsible for leading a team of 5 engineers)
 Good experience in project and team management gained through my jobs and social work
 Experience in preparing tenders and evaluating bids.
Technical skills and competences • Performed innovative research in the area of wireless communications (antennas and propagation)
• Educated in various aspects of telecommunication engineering through my extended studies,
• Combined Competences (Engineering, Science, Law, Management etc) through my post academia
training and work experience
• Excellent command of Spectrum issues (antenna and propagation researcher, RF instruments
sales support, member of Spectrum Monitoring Department)
• Proven ability to handle classified and sensitive information (industrial or governmental) throughout
my work experience
• Technical Translations from English into Greek (Greek edition of “Scientific American”)
• IEE, Paper reviewer until 2006
• Member of the Technical Chambers of Greece since 2002
Computer skills and competences  Good command of Microsoft Office™ tools (Word™, Excel™ and PowerPoint™);
 Good command of programming in MatLab and C
 Experience on using antenna modelling and propagation prediction software tools
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7. Other skills and competences • Handyman and carpentry as a workshop assistant, and as a technician in the Army
• Sports: player, coach, and teacher (Woking College) of Basketball , player of Korfball
• Youth Worker: Trainer, Conference Chairman, Team and Camp Leader
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