Evangelos-Nikolaos D. Madias

1. Personal Data

Evangelos-Nikolaos D. Madias was born in Athens in 1986. He graduated from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, in 2010. His Diploma dissertation concerned the application of energy efficient lighting in retail and commercial lighting installations.

He holds an MSc Diploma in Mathematical Modelling in Modern Technologies & the Economy from the School of Applied Mathematical & Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens, in 2012. His MSc thesis regarded the study of energy market liberalization in southern European countries.

He is a PhD candidate at School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. The field of his PhD research is the development of an artificial lighting control system with light sensors placed on work plane level.

He is fluent in English, German and Russian.

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2. Current Position

Researcher & Test Engineer, Lighting Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens (From September 2013- to present)

Freelancer Electrical & Computer Engineer (From 2010-to present)

3. Scientific & Work experience

Since 2013 he is a Researcher and Test Engineer at Lighting Laboratory (NTUA). He has extensive experience in photometric, electric, spectral measurements of luminaires and lamps as well as quality assurance testing of interior and exterior lighting installations. He is the author of 21 publications (5 in international scientific journals, 12 in international conferences, 2 in national conferences and 2 in national press). He has participated in various research projects funded by the private and the public sector. During his compulsory military service, he has served as an Analyst-Developer for the Information Technology Support Center of the Hellenic Army. He has participated in the following projects:

•   Quality assurance testing of lighting equipment (2014-2020), funded by manufacturers of lighting equipment.
• Quality assurance testing of interior and exterior lighting installations (2014-2020), funded by manufacturers of lighting equipment.
• Artificial lighting control system with ambient light sensor network”, funded by the Research Committee of NTUA (2018-2019)
• Study of technical specifications of LED traffic lights (2016-2017), funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
• Thales – NTUA: Development of a novel intelligent lighting control system with imaging sensor for optimum daylight exploitation and energy saving”,(code MIS 379524), in Priority Axis “11-Reinforcement of Human Capital for the promotion of the research and innovation in the 3 Phasing out Regions” which is co-funded by the EU-ESF and National Funds through the operational program “Education and Lifelong Learning”(2012-2015)
• South-East European TSO Challenges (SEETSOC)” (2014), Project number 239453, funded by FP7 ENERGY-2008-TREN-1. 
• Energy savings in lighting installation of General Maternity Hospital of Elena Venizeloy (2011).

4. Educational experience

• Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students’ diploma dissertations (From 2013-to present)
• Teaching of students’ laboratory practice exercises of the undergraduate subject “Lighting Technology” (From 2013-to present)

5. Scientific publications

5.1 Publications in international peer reviewed journals

• E.N.D. Madias, L.T. Doulos, P.A. Kontaxis, F.V. Topalis “A decision support system for techno-economic evaluation of indoor lighting systems with LED luminaires”, Operational Research, Springer, Article in Press (2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-019-00485-1
•   L.T. Doulos, A. Kontadakis, E.N. Madias, M. Sinou, A. Tsangrassoulis “Minimizing energy consumption for artificial lighting in a typical classroom of a Hellenic public school aiming for near Zero Energy Building using LED DC luminaires and daylight harvesting systems”, Energy and Building, 194, (2019), 201-217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.04.033,
• G.K. Adam, P.A. Kontaxis, L.T. Doulos, E.N.D .Madias, C.A. Bouroussis, F.V. Topalis, “Embedded microcontroller with a CCD camera as a digital lighting control system“, Electronics, 8 (1), 51, (2019) doi:10.3390/electronics8010033
• E-N.D. Madias, P.A. Kontaxis, F.V. Topalis: "Application of multi-objective genetic algorithms to interior lighting optimization”, Energy and Buildings, Volume 125, 1 August 2016, Pages 66–74,Σ ISSN 0378-7788.
• C.A. Bouroussis, E-N.D. Madias, P. A. Kontaxis, F.V. Topalis: "Benchmark report on the photometric and electrical performance of LED replacements of GU10 halogen spot lamps",  Ingineria Iluminatului - Journal of Lighting Engineering, Volume 14, Number 2, December 2012, ISSN 1454-5837.

5.2 Publications in international conference proceedings

•  P. F. Topali, P. A. Kontaxis, L. T. Doulos, E-N. D. Madias, F. V. Topalis, “Energy saving and visual comfort by optimizing photosensor position», 6th Balkan Conference on Lighting Balkan Light 2015, Athens, Greece, September 16-19, 2015.
• L.T. Doulos, P.A.Kontaxis, E-.N. D.Madias, C.A.Bouroussis, A. Tsangrassoulis, F.V.Topalis, “The role of dimmable LED luminaires to daylight harvesting”, 6th Balkan Conference on Lighting Balkan Light 2015, Athens, Greece, September 16-19, 2015.
• E.-N. D. Madias,  P.A. Kontaxis, L. T. Doulos, F. V. Topalis, "An intelligent lighting control system using photosensors placed on task area, controlling luminaires via LAN",  10th International Conference on ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT (EE '15), Budapest, Hungary, December  12-14, 2015.
• P.A. Kontaxis, E.-N. D. Madias, P. F. Topali, L. T. Doulos, C. A. Bouroussis, F.V. Topalis, "Optimization Analysis for the Determination of Photosensor Position for Energy Saving and Visual Comfort",10th International Conference on ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT (EE '15), Budapest, Hungary, December  12-14, 2015.
• P.A. Kontaxis, S.D. Kaminaris, E.-N. D. Madias, F.V. Topalis: "Evaluation of Image Sensors for Lighting Control Applications Using Fuzzy Logic", 9th Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission Distribution and Energy Conversion, Medpower 2014, Athens, Greece, November 3 - 7, 2014.
• S.D. Kaminaris, P.A. Kontaxis, E.-N. D. Madias, F.V. Topalis: "Optimizing energy efficient lighting using fuzzy logic methodology", 9th Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission Distribution and Energy Conversion, Medpower 2014, Athens, Greece, November 3 - 7, 2014.
• C.A. Bouroussis, L.T. Doulos, E-N.D. Madias, F.V. Topalis: "Benchmark test on LED replacements of directional halogen lamps", Lux Europa 2013, Cracow, Poland, September 17-19, 2013.
• E-N.D. Madias, P.A. Kontaxis, L.T. Doulos, F.V. Topalis: "Optimizing energy efficient lighting using multi-criteria analysis", Lux Europa 2013, Cracow, Polland, September 17-19, 2013.
• P.A. Kontaxis, E-N.D. Madias, L.T. Doulos, D. Zevgolis, F.V. Topalis: "Evaluation of image sensors for lighting control applications", Lux Europa 2013, Cracow, Polland, September 17-19, 2013.
• C.A. Bouroussis, P.A. Kontaxis, E-N.D. Madias, F.V. Topalis: "Photometric and electrical performance of LED lamps for replacement of GU10 halogen spot lamps", 5th Balkan Conference on Lighting, Balkan Light 2012, Belgrade, Serbia, October 3-6, 2012.
• E-N.D. Madias, L.T. Doulos, P.A. Kontaxis, F.V. Topalis: "Applying multi-criteria decision analysis for selecting street lighting luminaires", 5th Balkan Conference on Lighting, Balkan Light 2012, Belgrade, Serbia, October 3-6, 2012.
• D. Moullou, E-N.D. Madias, L. T. Doulos, C. A. Bouroussis, F. V. Topalis:  "Lighting in    Antiquity", 5th Balkan Conference on Lighting, Balkan Light 2012, Belgrade, Serbia, October 3-6, 2012.

5.3 Publications in technical journals

•   P. A. Kontaxis,  E.N.-D. Madias, Frangiskos V. Topalis: “Innovative artificial lighting control systems”, Electrician (Technical Journal), Issue 310, December 2018 (In Greek).
•   E.N.-D. Madias: "Suggestions for rational use of energy in commercial lighting installations", Modern Technical Review (Technical Journal), Issue 224, January 2011 (In Greek).