Autor/-in: Apostolos Papanikolaou

Prof. Dr. -Ing. Habil. Apostolos D. Papanikolaou is em. Professor of the National Technical University of Athens. He studied Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. He headed more than 80 funded research projects and was author/co-author of over 700 scientific publications dealing with the design and optimization of conventional and unconventional vessels, the hydrodynamics analysis of ships in calm water and in seaways, the logistics-based ship design, the stability and safety of ships and regulatory developments regarding maritime safety and decarbonisation of shipping at IMO. He received various international prize awards for his research work, among them the RINA Safer Ship award in 1999, the Lloyds List 2009 Greek Shipping award on Technical Innovation, the prestigious Dr. K. Davidson medal/award of SNAME for outstanding achievement in ship research in 2010. He is also the winner of the European Champions Award for Senior Researchers in Waterborne Transport in 2014 and 2024. He is Fellow and former International Vice-President of the Soc. of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers - SNAME (USA), Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects -RINA (UK) and the Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft-STG (Germany) and Distinguished Foreign Fellow of the Japanese Soc. of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers - JASNAOE (Japan).