Directors

Prof. Dr Panagiotis Kyratsis (www.kyratsis.com) is the Head of the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He is the Director of the Institute of Traditional Architecture and Cultural Heritage, University Research Center “TEMENUS” and the Director of the Computational Design and Digital Fabrication Research Lab (CODE+).

Prof. Panagiotis Kyratsis received his PhD in the area of CAD-based manufacturing process simulations from the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece. He holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki – Greece, and he received his M.Sc. in Automotive Product Engineering and M.Sc. in CAD/CAM from Cranfield University – UK, in 1997 and 1999 respectively.

He has been involved in a number of industrial projects and he has a great deal of expertise in both the design and the manufacturing aspects of product development. His main research interests include manufacturing, machining, CAD/CAM/CAE systems, product design, reverse engineering and prototyping. He has published more than 20 books and more than 190 papers in Scientific Journals and International Conferences. He acts as member of the editorial board and reviewer to numerous scientific journals and holds 12 industrial designs and two patents registered within the Greek Patent Office.