Panayotis Antoniadis is a senior researcher at ETH Zurich and co-founder of the nonprofit organization nethood.org. He has an interdisciplinary profile with background on the design and implementation of distributed systems (Computer Science Department, University of Crete), Ph.D. on the economics of peer-to-peer networks (Athens University of Economics and Business), post-doc on policies for the federation of shared virtualized infrastructures (UPMC Sorbonne Universites), and an on-going collaboration with urban planners on the role of ICTs for bridging the virtual with the physical space in cities. He has played a key role in numerous European projects such as MMAPPS (Market Management of Peer-to-Peer Services), WIP (An All-Wireless Mobile Network Architecture), OpenLab (Extending FIRE testbeds and tools), 
EINS (The Network of Excellence in Internet Science), and he is the coordinator of the project COMPARE (Interdisciplinary of self-organization in practice). Panayotis is currently active in the organization of various interdisciplinary events that aim to bring together researchers, practitioners, and activists from various fields around the participatory design of hybrid urban space with a focus on wireless and peer-to-peer technology.