igkotsis

Ilias Gkotsis (MSc) (male) is a Mechanical and Aeronautics Engineer with an MSc degree in Energy Production and Management. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in the Dep. of Transportation Planning & Engineering of NTUA. He has worked as Instructor on Mechanical Engineering courses in several IVTs, from 2009 to 2011. For 5 years he has been member of the implementation team of EU and National funded projects in the Transport sector, including traffic modelling and simulation, transport network management and environmental protection. From 2012, he is heavily involved (proposal writing, implementation, project/ financial management and coordination) in EU and Nationally Funded R&D projects as an associate researcher at the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), of the Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection. Indicatively, he has been managing and coordinating proposals and projects (FP7, H2020, NSRF 2007-2014, NSRF 2014-2020, DG ECHO, CIPS, ISF, etc.) in the field of Security (Disaster Resilience, Civil Protection, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Protection of Public Spaces, Border Surveillance, Networks of Practitioners, etc). Finally, he is a certified UAV pilot by the HCAA and the Chief Pilot of KEMEA’s UAV team.