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        <p>I am currently an Assistant Professor of Robotics and Autonomous systems at the University of Lincoln and member of the Linclon Centre of Autonomous Systems <a href="https://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/wp/people/">L-CAS</a>. My research is focused on robot learning, the development of machine learning models that act as robot controllers.</p>

<p>Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher and assistant lecturer at the <a href="lasa.epfl.ch">Learning Algorithms and Sytsems Labarotarory, (LASA)</a>, EPFL, Switzerland where I collaborated with <a href="http://lasa.epfl.ch/people/member.php?SCIPER=115671">Prof. Aude Billard</a> and was involved in both teaching and research activities. I was also a postdoctoral researcher at
 <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/start">Intelligent and Interactive Systems Lab</a>, University of Innsbruck, Austria collaborating with Prof. <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/dossiers/neue_gesichter/piater.html">Justus Piater</a>. My research field was robot learning for industrial applications focusing on kinesthetic teaching, movement primitives and reinforcement learning.</p>

<p>I have been awarded a Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in the field of Robot Learning under the supervision of Prof. <a href="http://homes.m-tech.aau.dk/lanalpa/">Lazaros Nalpantidis</a> and Prof. <a href="http://personprofil.aau.dk/104026">Volker Krüger</a>. I was a member of the Robotics Vision and Machine Intelligence <a href="http://rvmi.aau.dk/">RVMI</a> lab of the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department. My Ph.D. research was focused on model learning for control of industrial robots.</p>

<p>I was awarded M.Sc degree, with distinction, on Artificial Intelligence form the <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/">University of Edinburgh</a>, Department of Informatics. My thesis investigated the impact of internal models on self-organised robot controllers and it was supervised by Prof <a href="http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/michael-herrmann(cf1b7c31-3a87-4812-bf0a-05cf49b0120e).html">Michael Herrmann</a></p>

<p>I also hold a Dip.Eng degree on Production Engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece <a href="http://duth.gr/index.en.shtml">DUTH</a>, Department of Production and Management Engineering. My thesis was on Hebbian learning of fuzzy cognitive maps and it supervised by Prof. George Papakostas and Prof. Dimitrios Koulourioths</p>

<p>I have been invloved in multiple EU and nationally funded research projects as co-author, investigator and resercher.</p>

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<p>My main research interest is Machine Learning and its applications on both robot control and cognition. I enjoy developing and applying novel ML algorithms that make robots capable to explore their embodiment and environment while they learn a task. I focus on industrial applications where robots can become capable to learn different manufacturing tasks without the need of re-programming.
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      <td style="text-align: center">2021 - Today</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">Assistant Professor</td>
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