Dr. Eleftheria-Maria Pechlivani is a Principal Researcher Grade Β΄ at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and R&D manager of the Additive Manufacturing Unit (AMU) of ITI from January 2020.

She has successfully coordinated, organised and participated in more than 30 funded EU and National R&D projects. She is the EU Project Coordinator of the Soil Mission E-SPFdigit project, the International F2F EmergeNow project, the Green Deal PestNu project and, as well as the coordinator of the HRFI AISE project and the Scientific Coordinator for 7 NSRF projects and 3 EU projects.

She holds 12 patents and is the co-author of >80 publications in scientific refereed journals and book chapters, and she has more than 140 scientific papers at peer-reviewed international conferences.

Throughout her career in research, starting in 2006, she has worked as a research scientist at the Nanotechnology Lab (LTFN) and the Applied Physics Laboratory of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). Also, she worked as the R&D&I manager of the OET P.C (Apr.2016 – Dec.2019), a high-tech company in the field of Organic & Printed Electronics.

She is a lecturer at the International Hellenic University in the MSc program in Strategic Product Design, and she was also a lecturer in the ‘Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies’ (N&N) Interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Master Program at AUTh, as well as a Board Member of the Hellenic Organic & Printed Electronics Association (HOPE-A) during the period 2018–2019.

Since 2022, she is the Scientific Associate and Advisor at the I4byDesign Competence Center in Additive Manufacturing Unit, a Certified Evaluator at the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI) in Greece since 2021, and a reviewer for several international scientific journals (Elsevier, MDPI).

From an academic perspective, she supervises several internships and graduate students’ theses from the Polytechnic and Faculty of Sciences, and is a member of the three-member Advisory Committee for PhD candidates, as well as a member of the three-member Examining Committee overseeing postgraduate students’ master’s theses.

Her research interests include: Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing, 3D Bio-printing, 3D Design and 3D Scanning), Smart Systems, IoT applications with AI functionalities, Sensors and Printed Electronics, Quality Control (in -line, in situ and real time), Metrology, Digital Collaboration and Manufacturing Platforms, Decision Support Systems, in Industry 4.0, Agriculture 4.0, Circular Economy, Heritage/Culture and Energy sector.