I am the Manager of the ABS Global Ship Systems Centre at Athens, Greece. My work focuses on deterministic and risk based ship safety and performance. Before joining ABS I worked for 6,5 as Associate Professor of Marine Technology at Aalto Uiversity, Finland, 14 years for Lloyd's Register of Shipping (UK, Poland and South Korea) and 3 years for UK based engineering consultants. To date I held visiting appointments at Wuhan Uni of Technology (China), The University of Southampton (UK), INTI University (Malaysia) as well as the Universities of Madaras and KGP in India.