He owns a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sussex-UK, a PhD in Engineering from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras-GREECE and a MBA from the HoU-GREECE.  He worked among others, as a Design Engineer (2000-2001) in Flowtronic Pumps Ltd – UK, a Research Engineer (2001-2007) & Research Project Manager (2007 – 2010) in Laboratory of Manufacturing Systems & Automation and as a WCP & Production Manager (2010-2014) at Crown Holdings Inc., Bevcan – Europe and Middle East Division.  From 2014 – 2018 he was a Lecturer in Hellenic Air Force Academy, Dept. of Aeronautical Studies.  He is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras since September 2018.  He is teaching the following undergraduate courses: Mechanical Drawing & Machine-Shop Training I & II, Computer Aided Design, Non-Conventional Manufacturing processes,  Manufacturing Processes & Systems for Aerospace Structures and postgraduate courses: Advanced Manufacturing Processes. His main research interests are focused in the field of conventional/non-conventional/micro manufacturing processes, CAD/RP/RM/AM systems and machine tool design. He speaks fluently English and German.

He is a member of the: Institution of Mechanical Engineers-IMEchE (http://www.imeche.org/) since 2000, registered as a Chartered Engineer (Reg. N.: 594894) in the Engineering Council (http://www.engc.org.uk/), the Virtual Research Laboratory for a Knowledge Community in Production – VRL-KciP since 2004 and member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the Technical Chamber of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers.

He is a reviewer for forty (40) International Journals and International Conferences and member of the editorial board for two (2) International Journal.  He has acted as a member of the organising and programme committees of eight (8) International Conferences. Since 2002 he has been involved in more than twenty (20) RTD projects funded by the EC, acting as a Research Engineer, Technical and/or Project Manager, in the field of Advanced Manufacturing Processes. He has supervised over forty (40) Student and Diploma Thesis in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics of the University of Patras and the Hellenic Air Force Academy, many of which were conducted in cooperation with industries and in topics relevant to the Manufacturing Processes. He has more than 120 publications (thirty (30) publications in international refereed scientific journals, eight (8) publications in Greek refereed scientific journals, six (6) chapters in books, eighty (80) publications in conference proceedings with review in the full paper. His scientific work has been acknowledged by the international scientific community as the total number of unique citations of his research publications is 1700 (based on Scopus and Google Scholar citation indices).