Thanassis Giannetsos received his BSc degree in computer and telecommunication engineering from the Technical University of Thessaly, Greece in 2006; and MSc degree in information networking from the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2008. Since 2008, he has been working with Algorithms and Security group in Athens Information Technology (AIT), Greece, as a research engineer.

Since 2008, he has been also pursuing his PhD on sensor networks security at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Neeli R. Prassad (CTiF) and Prof. Dr. Tassos Dimitriou. His research interests include wireless security and privacy, design of intrusion detection and routing protocols of sensor networks, embedded systems and distributed computing.