Director

Ο Pantelis Angelidis is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia in Kozani. He received his degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1989, while he holds a PhD from the same Department since 1993. He has been working in the field of telemedicine and digital health for the last thirty years. He has published more than 130 articles in international scientific journals, conferences and book chapters. He has participated in more than 50 national and European research projects, while he was the coordinator and scientific director in more than 10 of them. He has been a visiting professor at the Medical School of the University of Barcelona (2011,2012,2014,2018), at the University of Copenhagen (2020,21,22), at Kingston University in the UK (2017) and at the MIT Media Lab (2009,2010,2014,2015,2016). He has patented four telemedicine devices. He has participated in the founding of three innovative companies, one in the field of digital health (http://www.vidavo.eu/), μιας στο χώρο των τεχνολογιών Blockchain (http://www.blockachain.gr/) και μιας στο χώρο της έξυπνης αγροτικής καλλιέργειας (http://www.agrosense.gr/). Είναι Marshall Memorial Fellow και υπότροφος του ιδρύματος Μποδοσάκη. Έχει διατελέσει Πρόεδρος της Αλεξάνδρειας Ζώνης Καινοτομίας. Έχει ως κύριο ενδιαφέρον τη μετεξέλιξη ερευνητικών αποτελεσμάτων σε καινοτόμες επιχειρηματικές δραστηριότητες, εστιάζοντας σε τεχνολογίες πρόληψης, προαγωγής υγείας και ενεργούς γήρανσης.