Stavros Kotsopoulos was born in Argos-Argolidos (Greece) in the year 1952. He received his B.Sc. in Physics in the year 1975 from the University of Thessaloniki., and in the year 1984 got his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras. He did his postgraduate studies in the University of Bradford in United Kingdom. And he is an M.Phil and Ph.D. holder since 1978 and 1985 correspondingly.

 Currently he is member of the academic staff of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras and holds the position of Associate Professor. Since 2004, is the Director of the Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory and develops his professional life teaching and doing research in the scientific area of Telecommunications), with interest in mobile communications, interference, satellite communications, telematics applications, communication services and antennae design. Moreover he is the (co)author of the book titled "mobile telephony". The research activity is documented by more than 160 publications in scientific journals and proceedings of International Conferences. Professor Kotsopoulos has been the leader of several international and many national research projects. Finally, he is member of the Greek Physicists Society and member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.