Dr. Ilias Panagiotopoulos holds a PhD degree from the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Greece, since 2020. He also received a PhD degree from the Mechanical and Aeronautics Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece, in 2009 and a Diploma degree in Mechanical and Aeronautics Engineering from the same department in 2002.

From 2020 to 2022 he was a post-doc research associate at the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Greece. His main research interests are in the areas of Intelligent, Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility. He has participated in various EU-funded research projects. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.

Since September 2022, he is working as a Project Manager / Senior Researcher at the I-SENSE group of the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS).