Nikos is the Research Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics (LIMAR) at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD). His research spans assembly and robotics; simulation, control, and scheduling of manufacturing systems and networks; digital manufacturing applications (CAx, PLM); knowledge management in engineering, operations, and manufacturing; and big-data analytics for advanced manufacturing. From 2005 to 2015 he worked at the Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece, where he served as technical coordinator on several European research projects. During this period he collaborated with leading European companies across the automotive, aerospace, process, textile, machine-tool, shipbuilding/ship-repair, and software sectors. Prior to that (2001–2005), he worked as IT Manager at INTRAMET Steel and Electromechanical Constructions S.A. (later merged into INTRAKAT S.A.), Greece's second-largest firm in its sector, where he led the implementation and rollout of a company-wide ERP system.