Lazaros Nalpantidis is a professor of autonomous systems at the Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Lazaros also serves as Head of the Automation and Control Group and Head of Studies for the DTU's MSc program in Autonomous Systems. Before joining DTU, Lazaros was an Associate Professor of Robotics at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark, where he also served as Head of the Section for Sustainable Production within the Department for Materials and Production. He has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS), Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab. (CVAP) of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. His research is in the areas of autonomous systems, robot perception, and machine learning.