Ioannis G. Askoxylakis received the Diploma in Physics from the Physics Department of University of Crete, Hellas, in 1998 and the Master of Science in Communication Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technical University of Munich in 2000. From 2000 to 2002 he fulfilled his military service.

In August 2002 he joined the Telecommunications and Networks Laboratory of FORTH-ICS as a Research Scientist.Within FORTH-ICS he participates in the two Horizontal Programmes of the Institute: the Information Security Programme and the Ambient Intelligence Programme. In 2009 he was appointed by the Director of FORTH-ICS to coordinate the Institute’s Computer Emergency Response Team, as Manager of FORTHcert, which provides services related to information security incidents. FORTHcert is the only Greek member of FIRST, the international Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams.

He is a member of the Permanent Stakeholders' Group of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and member of the Future Internet Forum. His research interests are in the fields of Wireless Communications and System Security with emphasis in Future Internet Security and Future Wireless Networks Security and Resilience.