Leonidas Bleris's Biography

Leonidas Bleris, Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

Leonidas Bleris is an Assistant Professor with the Bioengineering Department of the University of Texas at Dallas. Before joining UTD, Bleris was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University. Bleris earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in 2006, where he also earned an M.S. with focus in control theory. He received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2000 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Bleris was awarded the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship from the National Academy of Science (NAS), and served with the Board of Mathematical Sciences and their Applications. He was awarded "Best Presentation in Session" awards (American Control Conference 2004 and 2005), was selected as an NSF sponsored participant of the 2005 Pan American Study Institute on Process Systems Engineering, and in 2008 received the "Research Excellence Award" from the Hellenic Minister of Health. During 2008-2010, Bleris was an Independent Expert with the European Commission under the "Science, Economy and Society" directorate.