Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou
Member of the Photonic Networks Laboratory
Dimitra Simeonidou is the Head of the Photonic Networks Group and the newly established High Performance Networked Media Laboratory at the University of Essex, UK. She joined
Essex in 1998 (previously with Alcatel Submarine Networks). She is an active member of the optical networking and Grid research communities and coordinates several national and
European projects and initiatives. Main areas of research are: photonic switching, ultra high-speed network technologies and architectures, control and service plane technologies for
photonic networks and architectural considerations for Grid and cloud computing networks. She is the author and co-author of over 250 papers, 11 patents and several standardisation
documents (http://hpn.essex.ac.uk/).