Argyrios Zolotas

Biography

I have 20+ years of R&D experience in academia and collaboration with industry. Established strong quantitative background and expertise in Systems and Control engineering on applications that are dynamically complex, typified by the kinds of systems in the Rail, Aerospace, process and energy industry.

Project lead (and co-Lead) on research projects funded by the public sector and by industry. Fellow of the (UK) Higher Education Academy and Senior Member of the IEEE. Awarded a Visiting Professorship with Grenoble INP (hosted by GIPSA lab) in 2018.

Recipient (together with co-authors) of IMECHE’s Railway Division John Jarrett Davis Prize 2015 for the research paper “Passive suspensions for ride quality improvement of two-axle railway vehicles”.
Recipient (together with co-authors) of ICSAE 2016’s Best Paper Award –in topic Control Systems Engineering- for paper title “Improved PID control for Tilting Trains”.

Dr Zolotas was Associate Editor on the IEEE Transactions Control Systems Technology (for 6-year term, 2012-2018), on IET Proceedings Control Theory and Applications (5-year term, 2013-2018), on IEEE CSS Letters (4-year term,  2017-2021). He is currently Associate Editor on the journals of Sustainability (MDPI) and Vibration (MDPI). He is Member of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Smart Cities, and of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Robust and Complex Systems.