Dr Ventikos’ expertise is in marine safety; risk engineering; (oil) marine pollution; human reliability (incl. human centered design, non-technical skills); marine casualty investigation; resilience engineering; systems engineering; offshore and environmental risk; and statistical modeling. He has published and presented his work in many highly esteemed scientific journals such as Ocean Engineering, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Marine Pollution Bulletin etc and in more than 100 scientific conferences. Dr. Ventikos was awarded the G.P. Livanos Grand Prize on Environmental Issues sponsored by the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping (2000). Dr. Ventikos is very fluent in English and French and he has basic knowledge of Arabic.