I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering at the University of West Attica. I hold a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, a Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics Department and a Ph.D. from the Business Administration Department (University of Patras, Greece). My research interests lie in the field of Production Planning and Control and its interface with Robotics, Automation Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics and my work focuses on planning and scheduling of manufacturing and production systems where robots or human workers are employed aiming at the optimization of multi-criteria. I have published 18 papers in scientific journals such as Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computers & Operations Research, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 12 papers in conference proceedings and 2 book chapters. I has been involved as a researcher in European and National R&D projects and I am a regular reviewer for 14 international journals such as International Journal of Robotics and Automation and Expert Systems with Applications and for several international conferences.