Konstantinos N. Gyftakis (M'11-SM'20) received his Integrated Master 5-year
Diploma (2010) and his Ph.D (2015) from the Dept. of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Patras, Greece.
He worked as a Post Doctoral Research Assistant in the School of Engineering Science,
University of Oxford, UK (2014-2015), for the FUTURE Electric Vehicles project,
while the goal of his research was the understanding of the insulation degradation
mechanisms in traction electric motors. Afterwards, he worked as a Lecturer on
Electrical Engineering, Coventry University, UK (2015-2019). Finally, he was employed
as a Lecturer on Electrical Machines, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh,
UK (2019-2022). Since 2022, he has been an Associate Professor in the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. His main research interests lie in the
fields of condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, prognosis, electromagnetic analysis and design of electrical
machines.
Dr. Gyftakis was the recipient of the “Diagnostics Achievement Award” in 2025 at the IEEE Symposium on
Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (IEEE SDEMPED). Moreover, he regularly
appears in the Stanford list of 2% most influential researchers across all fields (2021-2025). His publications record
includes more than 150 papers in International scientific journals and conferences and a chapter for the book:
“Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance of Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives”, IET, 2018. He serves as an
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and the IEEE Transactions on Industry
Applications. Moreover, he is a Member of the IEEE SDEMPED International Steering Committee and serves his
second term as its elected Secretary. 

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