Curriculum Vitae

An updated short version of my CV can be found here.

Short Bio

PhD in Mechanical Engineering focused on Automation Control and Robotics, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

MSc in Automatic Control Systems and Robotics, National Technical University of Athens

MEng (5 years Diploma) in Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

Associate Professor (tenure track), Aalborg University, Dept. of Electronic Systems (04.2023 - present)

Assistant Professor (tenure track), Aalborg University, Dept. of Electronic Systems (05.2021 - 03.2023)

Postdoctoral Associate, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Chair of Information-oriented Control, Munich, Germany (6.2020 - 5.2021)

Postdoctoral Associate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Automatic Control, Stockholm, Sweden (1.2019 - 6.2020)

Visiting PhD student, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Automatic Control, Stockholm, Sweden (09.2016- 12.2016)

Coordinator: “SonicEye: AI-Enhanced Echolocation for Multimodal Robot Navigation in Harsh and GPS-Denied Environments”, 2025 (3 million DKK).
Grant Holder: “AAU Career Grant Package”, 2025 (0.6 million DKK).
Co-PI: ESA OSIP “SKYWALKER: Safe Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Robotic Crawling and Navigation on Large Space Structures”, 2025 (100k Euro).
PI: Eurogia2023 “BladeDoctor: Development of an efficient, reliable, versatile and fail-safe robotic maintenance system for wind turbine blades”, 2025 (AAU 330k Euro).
PI: DEFTNESS: increased capabilities of heterogeneous robots for the construction industry, 2022 (166000 DKK).
PI: FREYA: FutuRE robotic Yield monitoring for Agriculture, 2023 (1700000 DKK).
PI: DISARM – Drone- and Mobile Robot Integrated System for Automated UXO Removal and Mapping, 2023 (232000 DKK).
Grant Holder: EU Marie Curie ROBOCADEMY: European Academy for Marine and Underwater Robotics, Funding agency: EU Marie Curie Program (7th Framework Programme). Role: Grant Holder & Leader & Researcher, 2014–2017.

EU project THE: The Hand Embodied, Funding agency: FP7-ICT. Role: Researcher, 2010–2014.
EU project RECONFIG: Cognitive, Decentralized Coordination of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems via Reconfigurable Task Planning, Funding agency: FP7 ICT-9. Role: Researcher, 2013–2016.
EU project PANDORA: Persistent Autonomy through learNing, aDaptation, Observation and ReplAnning, Funding agency: FP7: Cognitive Systems and Robotics (STREP). Role: Researcher, 2012–2015.
EU project CO4ROBOTS: Achieving Complex Collaborative Missions via Decentralized Control and Coordination of Interacting Robots, Funding agency: H2020-ICT-2016-1 EU project. Role: Researcher, 2017–2020.
EU project SeaClear: SEarch, identificAtion and Collection of marine Litter with Autonomous Robots. Funded under H2020-EU.2.1.1, Grant agreement No. 871295. Role: Postdoctoral Researcher, 2020–2021.

Journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Control, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Journal of Field Robotics (Wiley), Artificial Intelligence Review, Control Engineering Practice, Nature Scientific Reports, International Journal of Control, IET Control Theory & Applications, European Journal of Control, Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Autonomous Robots (Springer), Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Sensors, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Energies, Journal of Marine Science and Application.

Conferences: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, IEEE European Control Conference, IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences (ICONS), IFAC World Congress, European Robotics League (ERL).