Diomidis Michalopoulos was born in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1983. He received the Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2005, from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the same year he joined the wireless communications systems group (WCSG); he obtained a PhD degree from the ECE department in May 2009.

From 2009 to 2013, he was with the DataComm group at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2011), and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2013). Since 2014, he is appointed with the Institute for Digital Communications, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, as a researcher and teaching istructor.

Diomidis Michalopoulos received the Marconi Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society in 2010 for his contributions in relay-aided communications, the Best Paper Award of the Wireless Communications Symposium (WCS) in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), and the Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize, for excellence in research at the University of British Columbia in 2011.

Diomidis Michalopoulos is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and a guest Editor for a special issue in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He has also served as member of Technical Program Committees for IEEE conferences such as Globecom, WCNC, and VTC. He is a member of the IEEE since 2005.