Dr. Venetis Kanakaris was born in Komotini, Greece. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from Lamia Technical University, Greece, the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kavala Technical University, Greece, in 2004, and the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications and Technologies from Technical University of Gabrovo, Bulgaria, in 2006. Also, received his PhD from University of Portsmouth in 2012, U.K. as well as the M.Ed. from Open University of Greece in 2013. Since October of 2016, is adjunct Lecturer at Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kavala, Greece. His current research interests lie in energy ad hoc routing protocols and low-power underwater wireless sensor protocol architectures.