Cranfield in 2015. During his tenure at Cranfield University, he held various management and leadership posts, including the director of research in the School of Aerospace, Transport & Manufacturing. In 2011, he was the founding director of the regional high-performance scientific computing centre at The Cyprus Institute in close partnership with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. In July 2015, he was appointed as the executive dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, one of the UK's largest engineering schools. He worked with principal and vice-chancellor, Professor Sir Jim McDonald (electrical engineer). From 2015 to 2018, he held various executive posts as associate principal and executive director of Global Partnerships. He left the University of Strathclyde in October 2018 to join the University of Nicosia in Cyprus as the vice president of global partnerships, executive director of research and innovation, with a full professor (cross-appointment) in the medical school and the School of Sciences and Engineering. The University of Nicosia is a private, English-speaking university, the largest in Cyprus. In 2019, he founded the Defence and Security Research Institute, a multidisciplinary institute dedicated to science and technology and collaboration with governments, industry and academic worldwide. Research His research covers several topics, including: Advanced computational fluid dynamics methods: High-resolution and high-order methods. Transition and turbulence: in the Large Eddy Simulation frame, mainly implicit Large Eddy Simulation, and Direct Numerical Simulation. High-speed flows: featuring shock waves, turbulence, and instabilities. Multiphase flows: He has developed and applied multiphase fluid dynamics methods to study diverse problems such as compressible fluid/solid interactions, two-phase flows, oil and gas flows, Coronavirus transmission and weather effects. Acoustics: acoustic fatigue and noise propagation. Bio-Medical: In 2020 and 2021, he published jointly with Dr Talib Dbouk a series of multiphase fluid dynamics papers investigating the contaminated saliva droplet spread, face masks, and the impact of weather on COVID-19. 1. The article by Dbouk, D. Drikakis, On coughing and airborne droplet transmission to humans Phys. Fluids 32, 053310 (2020) received to date one of the highest Altmetric Score of all American Institute of Physics publications. 2. The trilogy of articles received public recognition through multiple news outlets coverage worldwide. Heat transfer and thermal management: He has developed heat transfer models for a broad range of scales and applications, including micro and nanofluidic devices and fundamental science to understanding solid-fluid interfaces.