Dr. Savvas G. Loizou received his Diploma and his Doctorate in Mechanics from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2000 and 2005 respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UPN 's GRASP lab at the University of Pennsylvania . He was then a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. From 2008 to 2010 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Frederick University . In November 2010 he was elected a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science and Engineering of Materials of the Cyprus University of Technologywhere he took office in January 2011 and created the Laboratory of Robotics, Automatic Control and Decision Systems with facilities in the Sikopetriti and Tifi buildings.

"The research interests of Dr. Loizou includes a wide range of theoretical control topics related to robotics and autonomous dynamic systems, and in particular autonomous navigation and control, multi-robot coordination, process design, human-robot interaction, etc. The fields of application of Dr. Loizou include underwater vehicles, surface vehicles, ground vehicles, air vehicles, air traffic systems, micro-robotic systems, robotic cells, networked robotic systems and more. "