Dr. George Moustris is a Research Associate at the Institute of Computers & Communications Systems and member of the Intelligent Robotics & Automation Lab (IRAL) in the ECE School at the National Technical University of Athens. He received his M.Eng. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at ECE/AUTH (2003) and his Ph.D. in robotics and control at ECE/NTUA (2010).  From 2011-2013 he carried out his Post-Doctoral research at IRAL in medical/surgical robotics, involving motion compensation for robotic beating heart surgery, as well as haptics and shared control in telesurgery systems. His current research interests are focused on medical, surgical and assistive robots, aiming towards automating various functions of their operation.