Christos Mademlis (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in 1964 in Arnea Chalkidikis, Greece. He received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical machines from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 1987 and 1997, respectively. Since 1990, he has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUTH, as Research Associate (1990–2001), Lecturer (2001–2006), Assistant Professor (2007–2014), Associate Professor (2014–2019), and currently Professor (since 2019). From 2013 to 2016, he was Head of the Electrical Energy Department, and since 2010 he has been Director of the Electrical Machine Laboratory, AUTH. He is author/co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers. He was the founder (2013) and served as Faculty Advisor (2013-2017) of the Student Formula SAE Racing Team of AUTH. In 2017, he got Fulbright Grant as a Visiting Professor at the APED, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, USA.