Athanasia Sapountzi participated in the Multimodal Speaker Recognition and Localization project that Roboskel organized in the context of IRSS 2013 (July 2013). She then joined Roboskel as an intern for her Electrical and Computer Engineering degree at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she worked on the improvement and the ROS re-implementation the HPR method originally developed and prototyped by Theodoros Varvadoukas for his BSc thesis. She was also involved in the Roboskel demonstration at Researchers’ Night 2013 and worked on using intensity information to improve the segmentation of laser range data.
In early 2014 she moved on to FERCHAU Engineering, Germany, to pursue a career in industry.