Paraskevi Th. Zacharia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering at the University of West Attica. She holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics (2002), a Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics Department (2009) and a Ph.D. from the Business Administration Department (2016) (University of Patras, Greece).
Her research interests lie in the field of Production Planning and Control and its interface with Robotics, Automation Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics. Her work focuses on planning and scheduling of manufacturing and production systems where robots or human workers are employed aiming at the optimization of multi-criteria.
She has published 20 papers in scientific journals, 12 papers in conference proceedings and 2 book chapters with h-index=12 in Google Scholar She has been involved as a researcher in numerous European and National R&D projects. She is a reviewer for more than 10 international journals of high impact factor.