Dr. Kosmas Alexopoulos has graduated from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of University of Patras, Greece in 1999. He has received a Ph.D. in engineering (2006) from the University of Patras – Greece. Since October 1998 he has been working at the Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of the University of Patras as a software engineer, senior researcher and project manager in more than 20 European and National research projects. His research area and expertise are in the fields of smart factory, digital factory, flexibility of manufacturing systems, digital transformation, virtual and augmented reality, internet of things, industrial dataspaces, cyber-physical-systems, industrial product service systems, computer-aided ergonomics analysis and modelling, human motion modelling and simulation, semantics, production scheduling and artificial intelligence. He has currently more than 80 publications, including papers in international refereed scientific journals, chapters in books, and papers in conference proceedings with review in the full paper.