Prodromos Makris was born in Samos Island, Greece in 1985. He holds a five-year Diploma in Information and Communication Systems Engineering (2007) and a MSc (honors) in Communication and Computer Networking Technologies (2009) both from the University of the Aegean, Greece. He is currently pursuing his PhD and works as an ICT engineer for the Computer and Communications Systems Laboratory in the department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering.

During the last years, he has been actively participating in several national and EC-funded projects (e.g. FP6-IST-UNITE, FP7-ICT-HURRICANE, FP7-ICT-PASSIVE, FP7-ICT-COGEU, COSMOTE PEDION 24, etc). His research interests include QoS provisioning in 4G heterogeneous network technologies, context-aware mobile and wireless networking and mobile cloud computing issues. He is an IEEE member and also a member of Technical Chamber of Greece.