Dr. Gerasimos Rigatos is currently a Research Director (Researcher Grade A') at the Industrial Systems Institute, Greece. He obtained his Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2000, and was subsequently a post-doctoral researcher at IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member and CEng of IET. Dr. Rigatos has led several research cooperation agreements and projects with accredited results in the areas of nonlinear control, nonlinear filtering, and control of distributed parameter systems, and his results appear in 12 research monographs and in several journal articles. He is first author of 150 journal articles, receiving over 3,400 citations (Scopus), and is an Editor of the Journal of Information Sciences, the Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, the SAE Journal of Electrified Vehicles, and the Journal of Power Electronics and Drives. He has held visiting professor positions at several universities in Europe.