Meet our mentors
Meet the people who guide and support our team throughout the project. Our mentors bring expertise from academia and industry, helping us turn ideas into working systems—from design and testing to data analysis and real-world impact. With their feedback and experience, we stay focused, solve problems faster, and push Solaris to a higher standard.
Dr. Pantelis Aggelidis
Scientific manager
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia | Professor
Professor Pantelis Angelidis is the scientific lead of our team and has been teaching in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia since 2008, with a focus on Digital Health/Bioinformatics and telecommunications applications in medicine. He holds an Engineering degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and a PhD from the same institution. His research interests include eHealth/mHealth, telemedicine, medical networks, and biomedical signal and image processing, and he is also the founder of VIDAVO.
Dr. Konstantinos Chatzisavvas
Strategic Development Manager
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia & Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Adjunct Lecturer
Kostas Chatzisavvas holds a BSc and an MSc in Physics, as well as a PhD in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), with research focused on the implementation of quantum computers and quantum information. He teaches in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia (Information & Coding Theory) and at AUTH (Quantum Information Processing / Computational Quantum Mechanics), and he is also a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Mathematics. His research interests span information theory and complexity, quantum information, and AI/ML.
Dr. Kyriakos Vafiadis
Scientific Advisor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia | Laboratory Teaching Staff
Dr. Kyriakos Vafiadis holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (2009) and a PhD (2016) from the University of Western Macedonia, with doctoral research on aerodynamic design/analysis and the optimization of wind turbine operation. He is a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia and is affiliated with the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery. His interests include aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and energy systems, and he also shares educational material through aeroanalysis.xyz.
Dr. Stathis Vounotrypidis
Scientific Advisor
University Hospital Ulm | Consultant
Stathis Vounotrypidis is a physician–researcher who studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001–2007) and completed an Erasmus exchange at the University of Cologne (2005–2006). He earned a German PhD at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2015) and held a research fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine (2018–2019), focusing on subretinal photovoltaic implants. He currently serves as a consultant at Universitätsklinikum Ulm and is involved in teaching at the University of Ulm and LMU. He also contributed to the “SynthSpectra” payload of the Solaris project.
Contact
Office BΠ1_2
Building A
Dpt. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UoWM Campus, ZEP
Kozani, Greece, 50100