People

Sergiu Dan Stan

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sergiu-Dan Stan Associate Professor PhD at the Faculty of Automotive, Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering. Main area or scientific research: mechatronics, parallel robots, haptic devices and exoskeletons, optimal design and control of parallel robots, design mechatronic systems with the assistance of virtual reality technology. Member of the IFToMM, Senior Member of the IEEE. Had been previously involved in several Grundtvig projects, Leonardo da Vinci, FP7, ISEC European programmes as well as national research projects financed through UEFISCDI, ROSA. Dr. Sergiu-Dan Stan has an experience like a Project Manager in the mentioned projects and in this project he will have the role of Project Manager and Expert/Teacher/Researcher in mechatronics.

Nikola Vitković

University of Nis, Serbia

Asoc. prof. Dr. Nikola Vitković is an Associate professor and Head of Information System at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia. His research includes Biomedical engineering (he was the team leader for the initial creation of Novel Educational Methodology - NEM and Method of anatomical Features - MAF), eLearning (ten years of experience), Programming (thirty years of experience), Information systems and technologies, CAD/CAM systems, Reverse engineering, Computer graphics. He has also taken part in scientific and professional team projects supported by the Serbian government and industry. He is the author of more than 80 scientific-technical papers. He participated as a researcher in FP6, FP7, TEMPUS, ERASMUS+ and H2020 projects.

Yuri Dekhtyar

Riga Technical University, Latvia

Prof. Yuri Dekhtyar, Riga Technical University, Latvia. Research interests: characterization and functionalization of solid materials surface layers, nanofilms and nanoparticles towards industrial and medical applications. Leader in pre-threshold photo-, exo and dual electron spectroscopies. More than 500 publications.

Inam UI Ahad

Dublin City University, Ireland

Dr Inam Ul Ahad is Assistant Professor in Advanced Manufacturing in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Dublin City University. Dr Ahad is a Principal Investigator in the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre, Dublin City University. Dr Ahad earned his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Dr Ahad completed Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme and received his PhD degree in Electronics jointly from Dublin City University, Ireland and Military University of Technology, Poland. Dr Ahad has worked in world leading companies in biomedical engineering, Gambro, Siemens and Philips Medical Systems. Dr Ahad main area of research is focused around development of sensors for industrial applications, new materials and in-situ process monitoring techniques for additive manufacturing, enhancement of corrosion resistance using laser based techniques, technology transfer and prototype development. Dr Ahad has participated in seven European Consortia including (EXTATIC, Laserlab Europe, COST Action MP1203, COST Action MP 1401, CEZAMAT, and ACTTiVAte) related to multidisciplinary fields. These projects are related to applications of EUV and Soft x-ray (SXR) in science and technology and assessment of technologies to identify new cross border value chains across four industry sectors (healthcare, agro-food, ICT and aerospace). Dr Ahad is leading two Erasmus+ ICM programmes in DCU.

Velibor Isailović

University of Kragujevac, Serbia

Velibor Isailovic is an associate professor of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, and holds PhD degree in bioinformatics. He is the author and co-author of a number of scientific papers in peer review journals, international conference proceedings and chapters in monographs on English language. Also, he is author and co-author of over 10 software for modelling with finite element and finite volume method from solid and fluid mechanics and multiphysics, as well as connection of medical data with mechanics solvers, and graphical software for preparing of models and postprocessing of results. Moreover, he was a participant in over 10 international projects (FP7, Horizon2020, COST, SCOPES, etc.).

George Milis

G.M EUROCY Innovations LTD, Cyprus

George Milis has a PhD in Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus (2018), with specialisation in semantically-enhanced intelligent monitoring and control systems, an MSc in Advance Computing (specialisation in Artificial Intelligence), Imperial College London (2014), Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2002). Dr. Milis has over 16 years of experience in research and innovation project management, and ICT development and consulting. He has gained expertise in systems theory, artificial intelligence, intelligent control systems, IoT, semantic interoperability and reasoning, educational games, cooperative game design, vocational training curricula, egovernment and e-collaboration, social government, etc.