Dr. Evangelos Papadopoulos
National Technical University of Athens
Dr. Evangelos Papadopoulos received a Diploma from NTUA, and a MS and PhDfrom MIT, all in Mechanical Engineering. In 1991 he was appointed a Lecturer atMIT and joined McGill University as an Assistant Professor. Since 1996 he is aProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at NTUA. He teaches courses in Robotics,Controls, Mechatronics, Circuits, and Electromechanical Systems. He is theDirector of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program Automation Systems,NTUA, and the Deputy Director of the ATHENA Robotics Institute and theHERON Center of Excellence, He is an Associate Editor of the Mechanism andMachine Theory, and the Frontiers in Space Robotics. He conducts research infield and space robotics, legged robots, biomechatronics, and control systems. Heis author of more than 350 papers, (h-index 50), and of three books. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, an ASMEFellow, an AAIA Fellow, and an AIAA Associate Fellow.