ProfessorKonstantinos Salonitis

Professor Konstantinos (Kostas) Salonitis (Dip Eng, MSc, PhD, MBA, MEd, PGCAP, CEng FIMechE, FHEA) graduated from the University of Patras with a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and was awarded a PhD in Manufacturing Processes in 2006. He has since completed a Master's in Business Administration and a Master's in Education (Adult learning). He has worked as a Research Engineer at the University of Patras on a number of research projects funded by the CEU. He has participated in over 10 European Commission-funded projects as a project manager and technical site manager.

He joined University College Dublin as a Full Professor of Advanced Manufacturing in April 2026.

He was an academic at Cranfield University from February 2012 to March 2026. He joined as a Lecturer in Manufacturing Systems, progressing to Senior Lecturer in October 2015 and Reader in October 2017. He was appointed a Professor of Manufacturing Systems in October 2019.

Kostas has published over 350 research papers in major international journals and internationally referred conferences and authored two books. He has supervised more than 20 PhD students to completion.

He has been the co-investigator in four EPSRC projects, 2 ATI projects, 1 Horizon 2020 project, the KTP academic supervisor for two KTP projects. He was the co-investigator in one Newton Fund project for the Industry Academia Partnership Programme with Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. He has completed more than 30 industrially funded projects. In Cranfield University he secured funding exceeding £10.0m. 

Kostas is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the IMechE (UK), a Fellow of the IET (UK) and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was the chair of the Manufacturing Industries Division (https://www.imeche.org/industry-sectors/manufacturing/about-the-manufacturing-industries-division) at IMechE . He is a member of the Consortium of UK University Manufacturing and Engineering (COMEH) as part of the Engineering Professors' Council.

He was the head of Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre, leading a team of 10 academics, 7 PDRAs and more than 40 PhD students. He has successfully completed the supervision of over 25 PhD and 130 MSc students and has published over 350 research papers in refereed academic journals and conference proceedings.

He is the associate editor for Journal of Manufacturing Systems (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-manufacturing-systems) and the Journal of Cleaner Production (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production).  He is the chief co-editor for Journal of Cleaner Manufacturing (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cleaner-manufacturing).

He is currently a visiting professor at Cranfield University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and at Jiangsu University.