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Dr. Costas Tzafestas is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

He holds an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) (1993), as well as a D.E.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) Degrees on Robotics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris 6, France). In 2003 he joined NTUA School of ECE where he currently serves as an Associate Professor of Robotics. He has previously served as a Research Associate at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (Greece).

His main research interests include cognitive assistive robotics, human-robot interaction, haptics and telerobotics, also spanning intelligent control and robot learning with applications in advanced manipulation and mobile robotics. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 scientific publications and has participated as Project Coordinator, PI, or Scientific Manager in several European and national research projects in the above fields. He currently serves as an Executive Board Editor of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems.