Nikolaos Sarantinoudis presented his PhD thesis, Development of an Application Framework for Digital Twin-driven Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, on October 24, 2026. Nikolaos, as an undergraduate student of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, was a member of TUCer team during the years 2015 to 2018. Among others, his tasks included the research and development at the electronics sector of the team.