Prof. Dr. Michail Papoutsidakis is a Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering of the University of West Attica. He is also the Director of the Postgraduate Program of Studies in New Technologies in Shipping and Transport which has been co-founded and operates in collaboration with the University of Aegean. He received a degree in Automation Engineering from the Technological Institute of Piraeus in 2000. In 2004, supported by the State Scholarships Foundation, he received a postgraduate diploma (MPhil) from the University of the West of England in the field of control systems and then he received his Ph.D. from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), England, which is part of the same University. In 2018, he received a Post-Doc Certificate from the University of Thessaly for his research on the development of motion design algorithms for autonomous mechatronic space surveillance vehicles and wireless image transfer with a combined use of micro-cameras. Additionally, Prof. Dr. Michail Papoutsidakis holds a training certificate for “Radiography Interpretation – Level II” with “Non-Destructive Testing” methods from the British Institute of NDT (2015).