Petros Savvidis

Petros Savvidis, PhD, is a control and instrumentation engineer and senior R&D and technical project manager with more than 17 years of experience across European industry and academia. His work spans industrial control, system modelling and optimisation, instrumentation, condition monitoring, model-based systems engineering, embedded systems and the delivery of complex technical programmes.

He has developed control, monitoring and data-acquisition solutions for energy, maritime, nuclear, automotive and manufacturing applications. His experience includes leading the development of an integrated smart-grid controller, delivering industrial modelling and control projects, supporting the commissioning of experimental systems and providing advanced control training to engineering teams from major international organisations.

Petros currently leads European and national research and development projects at SKYLD Security and Defence Ltd. He has also held research and teaching positions covering industrial control, embedded systems, critical-infrastructure inspection, human-machine interfaces and equipment health monitoring.

He holds a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and an MSc with Distinction in Communications, Control and Signal Processing from the University of Strathclyde. His Industrial Control Engineering series draws on this combination of practical engineering, applied research and teaching experience to present control engineering as a structured, process-led discipline.