Journal of Applied Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Gerasimos Rigatos

Dr. Gerasimos Rigatos, PhD
Research Director, Unit of Industrial Automation
Industrial Systems Institute, Greece

Biography

Dr. Gerasimos Rigatos obtained his diploma (1995) and his Ph.D. (2000) both from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. In 2001 he was a post-doctoral researcher at IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France. He is currently a Research Director (Researcher Grade A') at the Industrial Systems Institute, Greece. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member and CEng of IET. He has led several research cooperation agreements and projects which have given accredited results in the areas of nonlinear control, nonlinear filtering and control of distributed parameter systems. His results appear in 8 research monographs and in several journal articles. His research comprising 130 journal articles where he is the first author, has received in Scopus more than 2800 citations with an H-index of 26 (in Scholar one counts more than 5000 citations with an H-index of 34). Since 2007, he has been awarded visiting professor positions at several academic institutions (University Paris XI, France, Harper-Adams University College, UK, University of Northumbria, UK, University of Salerno, Italy, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France). He is an editor of the Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems and of the Journal of Electrified Vehicles