Professor Antonios Gasteratos is a Full Professor of “Robotics, mechanotronics, industrial automation, computer vision and machine learning”at the Department of Production and Management Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH). He has been with this Department since 2003 and has served as its Head (2015-2020). Prior to joining the Department he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Advanced Robotics of the Department of Informatics, Systems and Telematics of the University of Genoa. In addition, he is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of DUTH and has been a member of the Senate and the Research Committee of DUTH. He has also been a member of the Plenary of the National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), Chairman of the Service Council of EETT and a member of standing committees. Today he serves as Vice-Head at the Department of Production and Management Engineering and Director of the Robotics and Automation Laboratory, as well as Director of the Postgraduate Program “Innovation, Technology and Business Administration”. He holds a Diploma and a Doctorate from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of DUTH (1994 and 1999 respectively). He has taught various courses and in recent years has been teaching the courses “Mechanotronics”, “Electronics”, “Robotics”, “Automatic Control Systems” and “Machine Vision”. He has supervised 13 doctoral dissertations and more than 70 diploma theses. During the last 15 years he has been scientifically responsible for many projects funded mainly by the European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Hellenic Secretariat for Research and Innovation, the industry and other sources (total funding> € 3.5M). He has published over 250 articles in scientific journals and international conferences. He is the Subject Editor-in-chief at Electronics Letters and the Associate Editor at the International Journal of Optomechatronics and the International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems. He is a member of committees at international scientific conferences in the field of new technologies and has organized international conferences and workshops. He has been a reviewer in all international journals in the field of machine vision and robotics and in many others in the discipline of electrical and computer engineering. He is a project evaluator in various international and state organizations (European Commission, EURAMET, INTAS, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Russia, Georgia, New Zealand, etc.). Finally, he participates in the following scientific associations as a Fellow Member of IET, Senior Member of IEEE and member of ACM, SETN, EEDM.