Dimitrios Kyritsis

Expertise ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing, Closed Loop Lifecycle Management, Asset Lifecycle Management, Zero Defect Manufacturing, Predictive Maintenance, Industrial Ontologies, Cognitive Digital Twins Prof. Dr. Dimitris Kyritsis (Kiritsis) is Professor Emeritus of ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Academic Director of the EPFL Extension School program on Sustainable Resilient Value Chains, Senior Adviser at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Senior Adviser at the Swiss Smart Factory, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. His research interests are Closed Loop Lifecycle Management, Industrial Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs and Cognitive Digital Twins. Dimitris is involved in EU projects in the areas of Digital Manufacturing, Zero Defect Manufacturing, Circular Manufacturing, etc. He has more than 250 publications. From 2013 to 2019 Dimitris was the Chair of IFIP WG5.7-Advances in Production Management Systems. He is co-founder of the Industrial Ontologies Foundry and of the Knowledge Graph Alliance. Dimitris was Member of the WEF Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains from 2019 to 2022. Since 2022 he is Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access journal Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology. Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Aristeidis Matsokis, Andreas Koukias, Drazen Nadoveza, Fatih Karakoyun, Ana Milicic, Apostolos Perdikakis, Damiano Nunzio Arena, Sangje Cho, Prodromos Kolyvakis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos, Paul-Arthur Dreyfus Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Jongho Shin, Young Seok Kim, Ali Saffarpour, Aristeidis Matsokis