Andreas Anayiotos

Bio

He is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the Cyprus University of technology. He is the Director of the Technology Transfer Office at the “Eratosthenes  Center of Excellence”. https://eratosthenes.org.cy/. He is responsible for the IPR policy of the organization and the commercial promotion of the technology applications of the center in the area of Earth observation and Geoinformatics. He has been the Rector of the Cyprus University of Technology 2015-2029. He has been instrumental in the establishment of INTENT the Innovation and Technology Transfer Office at the University to promote innovation and the exploitation of the research results at CUT. He has also been instrumental in the establishment of CUTing Edge http://cutingedge.cut.ac.cy/    a maker space to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the University. He took the initiative and promoted the efforts to change the founding legislation for the State Universities in Cyprus to allow the establishment of spinoffs and other entrepreneurial activities.  Has published more than 150 peer reviewed publications and conference proceedings publications. He has been an expert evaluator in Bioengineering for the European Union, the National Institutes of Health (USA) and the National Science Foundation (USA) since 1999. He has been an evaluator for the EU programs FP6, 7 Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. He has been an evaluator for the European Innovation Council and Small & Medium-sized Enterprises Executive Agency (EISMEA) programs since 2022.