Dr. Dimitrios Loukatos received the diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the PhD. degree in Telecommunications and Computer Systems, both from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He currently is Laboratory Teaching Staff member of the Laboratory of Farm Machine Systems at the Dept. of Natural Resources Development and Agricultural Engineering of the Agricultural University of Athens. Dr. Loukatos is mainly focused on the subject of Cyber-Physical Systems and Intelligent Infrastructures in Agriculture and thus he participates in the teaching of a series of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the areas of electronics, automatic control, advanced sensing, acting and networking devices, robotics, computing and intelligent systems for agricultural applications. Dr. Loukatos has worked as a research associate for the NTUA and for the National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’. He also worked for the Institute of Geodynamics of the National Observatory of Athens, and for technology companies. His contribution fells in the area of programming, embedded systems, process optimization, networking, robotics, human-machine interaction, artificial intelligence, physical computing, project planning and implementation. In parallel, Dr. Loukatos has more than 25 years of cumulative teaching experience (in secondary, vocational, adult and higher education). His research and educational work have been published in many national and international scientific conference proceedings, book chapters and journals, 94 total publications up to 2/2025 (source google scholar), and has also served as a scientific committee member, reviewer and/or editor in research conferences, journals and book volumes. This cumulative work has been referenced 858 times up to 2/2025 (source google scholar).
Dimitrios Fragkoulis is a laboratory teaching staff member of Sector of Farms Structures & Farm Machine Systems. His field of knowledge is "data collection and processing systems".
Among his scientific topics of interest are: digital and analog systems design, signal processing and pattern recognition, sensors, intelligent systems.
He has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA and a PhD.
Dr. Konstantinos G. Arvanitis received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, he served several research and teaching positions in the National Technical University of Athens, in the Hellenic Naval Academy and in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He currently serves as a Professor of “Automation in Agriculture” in Agricultural University of Athens, Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Laboratory of Farm Machine Systems, where he teaches various courses relevant to his expertise in the fields of Automation and Digital Technologies. In the context of his academic activities, he has guided the preparation of more than 70 undergraduate theses and supervised 9 successfully completed postgraduate theses (MSc) and 2 doctoral theses (PhD). He is currently the supervisor of 6 ongoing doctoral theses, while at the same time he has served as a member of threepartite advisory committees in over 20 successfully completed postgraduate theses and in over 10 doctoral theses. He served as Head/ Deputy Head of the Section of Farm Structures and Farm Machinery (2013-2016, 2018-2019/2016-2017). He was (2000-2017) a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Control in Agriculture. He is, currently, a member of the European Society of Agricultural Engineers (EurAgEng) and of the European Federation of National Association of Engineers (FEANI), and a member of the Board of Directors of the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (http://wseas.org/cms. action?id=2001). He participated in 5 European and 22 domestic research and development projects. He published 342 technical papers in international/national books (25/1), refereed international scientific journals (128) and international/national conferences (159/29). He served (2009-2013) as a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal “Computers and Electronics in Agriculture”. He currently serves as He is currently Associate Editor of the international scientific journal “WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education”, member of the Editorial Board of the international scientific journals “Instruments”, “Inventions”, “Journal of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences”, Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal “International Journal of Agricultural Science”, and as Guest Editor in 17 Special Issues, in the international scientific journals, Sensors, Sustainability, Instruments, Symmetry, Energies, Micromachines, Robotics, Inventions, in the subjects of his scientific interests.; He participated in the Scientific and/or Program Committees of 80 international scientific conferences and in the Scientific/Organizing Committees of 20 national scientific conferences. He also served as Chairman in scientific sections of several international scientific conferences. He is an active reviewer in several international scientific journals (130), book series (2) and scientific conferences, His research work has received significant international recognition (6322 citations, h-index=39, g-index=75). Specifically, it has received: (a) in the Web of Science database: 2343 citations with an h-index of 26, (b) in the Scopus database: 3294 citations with an h-index of 31, and (c) in the Scholar database: 5020 citations with an h-index of 38. His main research interests are: Electrification, Automation and Digitalalization in Agriculture, Advanced Process Control, Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks, ICT and Artificial Intelligence Applications in Agriculture, Image Processing and Remote Sensing, Optimization Techniques nd Computstionsl Intelligence, Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Precision Farming Systems, SCADA Systems, Decision Support Systems, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. Energy Management and Control of Autonomous Micro-Grids, Desalination Installations and Elecric Vehicles. Internet of Things and Edge/Cloud Computing. Risk Management Assessment as well as Education 4.0 in the Context of Agriculture 4.0.
Dr.-Ing Dimitris Manolakos is a Mechanical Engineer of NTUA. He specializes in thermal technologies relevant to heat extraction, upgrade, and conversion to electricity in industry, marine and agricultural sectors. His objective at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) is to investigate, develop and integrate Energy Efficiency and Renewables Thermal Technologies and measures in the primary and secondary agricultural sector. In general, the research work assumes the optimal utilization of energy resources for the benefit of the economy and development of the agricultural sector. RTD work is mostly focused on: -Low grade heat recovery and conversion to power technologies, emphasizing on Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), either for electricity generation or CHP. Solar thermal systems, biomass and waste heat are considered as candidate heat sources. - Low grade heat recovery and upgrading technologies, emphasizing on High Temperature Heat Pumps (HTHPs) for utilization industrial applications. -Precise climate control of agricultural buildings with multi-use (sensible heating and cooling, de-humidification and re-heating) air, water or geothermal heat pumps. -Treatment of brackish, sea and brine water with desalination/distillation technologies combined with renewable energy technologies (i.e. solar heat, geothermal heat and heat pumps). At AUA he teaches Applied Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer and Heat Engines.