Nikolaos Aggelopoulos is a Research Associate at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). He is a graduate of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Ioannina and holds a doctoral degree from the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK. His doctoral research thesis is focused on the damage detection and damage evolution monitoring in Fibre Reinforced Materials using the Acoustic Emission technique. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and has worked as a Project Engineer in the industrial sector. His research interests include Structural Integrity Monitoring, Failure Detection, Signal Processing, Metallurgy, and Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials.