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Athanasios Kalogeras

Research Director, Industrial Systems Institute, Research Centre ATHENA

Athanasios P. Kalogeras is Research Director and Deputy Director of the Industrial Systems Institute of the ATHENA Research Center. His research interests include cyber physical systems and their sub class industrial control systems, industrial internet of things (IIoT), flexible manufacturing systems, collaborative manufacturing, industrial integration and interoperability. Research in the above sectors is applied in diverse application areas including the manufacturing environment, critical infrastructure protection, smart cities, smart buildings, smart energy, smart health, smart applications for tourism / culture. He has over 25 years of experience in the implementation, management and coordination of over 45 European and national funded projects. He has over 80 scientific publications in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings, and has participated as a member in the program committee of more than 30 conferences. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Agrifood Western Greece. He has been a postgraduate scholar of the Bodosakis Foundation. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and a Senior Member of IEEE.