Personal profile
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Computational Fluid Dynamics, National Technical University of Athens
1988 → 1991
Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
1982 → 1987
External positions
Executive Director, University of Strathclyde
2017 → 2018
Executive Director, Global University Partnerships, University of Strathclyde
2017 → 2018
Associate Principal, University of Strathclyde
2016 → 2017
Professor of Engineering Science, University of Strathclyde
2015 → 2018
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde
2015 → 2017
Director of Research, Cranfield University
2013 → 2015
Head, Department of Engineering Physics , Cranfield University
2012 → 2013
Founding Director, Cyprus Institute
2011 → 2012
Head, Aerospace Sciences Dept, Cranfield University
2005 → 2010
Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science, Cranfield University
2003 → 2015
Reader in Computational Fluid Dynamics, University of London
2001 → 2003
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering , University of Manchester
1995 → 1999
Team Leader, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1993 → 1995
Research Scientist, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1992 → 1993
Research and Teaching Assistant, National Technical University of Athens
1988 → 1991
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 15 Life on Land -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Flow and heat transport effects from urban greening in a metropolitan environment
Kokkinakis, I. W. & Drikakis, D., 1 Jan 2026, In: Physics of Fluids. 38, 1, 015121.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Forecasting chaos: AI-enhanced prediction of indoor climate dynamics
Christakis, N., Tirchas, P., Kokkinakis, I. W. & Drikakis, D., 5 Mar 2026, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 300, 130186.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Informer deep learning forecasting for high-speed aeroelastics
Drikakis, D., Kokkinakis, I. W., Fung, D., Spottswood, S. M., Brouwer, K. R., Riley, Z. B., Daub, D. & Gülhan, A., Apr 2026, In: Aerospace Science and Technology. 171, 111547.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Transformer-based reconstruction of sparse pressure signals in a high-speed flow over a compliant panel
Drikakis, D., Kokkinakis, I. W., Fung, D., Spottswood, S. M., Brouwer, K. R. & Riley, Z. B., 1 Feb 2026, In: Physics of Fluids. 38, 2, 025126.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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When less is more: Sample-aware pruning of uninformative features improves neural-network regression
Christakis, N. & Drikakis, D., 7 Jan 2026, In: Neurocomputing. 660, 131913.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review