Lab Coordinator. Eftychios Christoforou has a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece (1994), and a postgraduate diploma in Management from the Mediterranean Inst. of Management, Cyprus (1996). He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand (2000). His doctoral studies were fully supported by a Commonwealth scholarship. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Univ. of Cyprus, Dept. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (2019-). He has extensive industrial experience on mechatronic/ robotic systems design, and system dynamics and control. He held a position as Adjunct Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Missouri (2004-2007). During the same period, he was also a Research Fellow with the Medical School of the same university. Prior to his current appointment he was a visiting academic (teaching and research) at the University of Cyprus – School of Engineering (2007-2018). His research and teaching interests are in the areas of Robotics, Dynamics, Control, and Engineering Design. He has worked on several funded research projects. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.