Dr. Spyros Blionas got in 1983 his Diploma degree in Physics (specialisation in Electronics) and his Ms.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Electronics in 1986 from the University of Athens. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Patras (1990) on VLSI parallel architectures for digital signal processing. 

From 1988 to 1990 he was research fellow in Joint Research Centre of European Commission in Ispra Italy. From 1991 to 2006 he was in Development Programmes Department of  INTRACOM in various positions from researcher to assistant manager in research collaborative projects in the area of Microelectronics (Systems on a chip and VLSI for wireless communications and biotechnology applications). In 2006 he founded Micro2Gen a spin-off company for VLSI technology for Molecular Diagnostics instrumentation solutions based on Lab-on_Chip. From 2007 to 2009 he was associated professor in the Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia at Technological Educational Institute of Crete on microprocessors teaching microprocessors, embedded systems, and digital design. In parallel he was also Researcher at the Centre for Technological Development of Crete participating in the research collaborative projects of TEI Crete. From 2009 to 2021 he was associated professor and since 2021 professor, in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications in University of Peloponnese on Electronics-Design of analog and digital systems teaching Electronics circuit design, Logic design, Design of Digital Systems and Circuits, Implementation of Digital Systems and Circuits on FPGAs, Internet of Things (IoT), Introduction to Embedded Systems and wireless sensor networks in the MSc Department’s course “Computer Science and Technology”. In the academic year 2021-22 he was visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science of the Neapolis University Pafos.  

He participated in more than 20 research collaborative projects as a researcher or project coordinator. He is author and co-author of more than 70 articles in Journals and conferences/workshops and of 6 patent applications. 

His research interests lie in the design of IoT embedded systems and System-on-a-Chip with sensors for telecommunications applications, Biotechnology and Molecular Diagnostics Lab-on-a-Chip instrumentation and Medical devices.

• Hardware and software design and development of embedded Internet of Things (IoT) systems, wireless sensor networks.
• Neuroengineering and particularly brain-machine and brain-computer interfaces.
• MEMs and Biosensors
• Analog and Digital Biomedical/Biotechnology systems and Medical devices development
• Methodologies and design of digital signal processing applications
• Reconfigurable architectures