Dr Nikolaos P. Ventikos is an Assistant Professor in the Laboratory for Maritime Transport of the Division of Ship Design and Maritime Transport at the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NA&ME) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.
He has a diploma from the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NA&ME) of NTUA and a PhD from NTUA in the scientific areas of marine safety, risk analysis/assessment and ship generated oil pollution.

At NTUA he has participated in several major research projects in the areas of maritime transport, port operations, marine safety, marine salvage (currently he is acting as technical advisor of the Port Authorities of Thira for the case of ‘Sea Diamond’) and environmental protection.

Dr Ventikos’s expertise is in marine safety; risk analysis/assessment; (oil) marine pollution; maritime security; human factor; salvage engineering (i.e. search and rescue, oil removal from ships in distress, or wrecks and wreck removal); port operations; ship recycling; ship generated waste management, optimisation and statistical modelling.