Katerina M. Oikonomou is a postdoctoral researcher at the Democritus University of Thrace in Xanthi, Greece, working with Prof. Antonios Gasteratos. Her research interests span robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and computational neuroscience. She successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, titled “Spiking Neural Networks for Perception and Control in Human Assistive Robotic Systems,” in June 2025. During her doctoral studies, she actively contributed to several European and national research projects.

Before that, she received her Masters’s Degree in Robotics and Automation Systems from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, having her Master’s thesis achieved at the University of Bremen, Germany. She also holds a Bachelor Degree in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece, having followed the informatics, electronics, and signal processing specialization.

Her journey in research started in 2017 when she was an undergraduate intern at RoboSKEL Lab in the National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos”. After graduating in 2018, she joined RoboSKEL, where she continued working as a graduate research assistant on vision-based robot navigation. Since 2021 she started working at the Laboratory of Robotics and Automation, Department of Production and Management Engineering in the Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece.