Panagiotis Vartholomeos received his MEng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London (2001) and his PhD in Robotics from the School of Mechanical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2007. He conducted postdoctoral research in surgical robotics as a Harvard Research Fellow at Harvard University and its affiliated teaching hospitals—Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital—from January 2010 to October 2012.

Since December 2025, he has been serving as Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NTUA. Previously, from June 2021 to December 2025, he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Thessaly. He has held research and leadership roles across industry, including positions at Zenon A.E. (Researcher, 2008–2009), SingularLogic (Senior Researcher, 2014–2019), and TWI Hellas (Principal Investigator, 2020–2021). He has participated in more than ten European, U.S., and nationally funded research projects, has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications and holds one patent on assistive robotics.