Nikos Markatos

Nikolaos – Christos Markatos of Gregorios is former Dean of NTUA (1991-1997) and professor emeritus of the department of chemical engineering of NTUA. He is visiting professor at the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge and fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts in England (FRSA).

Born in Athens, Greece, on 1 March 1944, he studied chemical engineering at NTUA. In 1967 and continued his postgraduate specialization in business administration at Athens University of Economics in 1969. He continued his postgraduate studies at the Imperial College of London from 1970 to 1974 where he obtained his diploma (DIC), and at the same university continued with his doctoral diploma (PhD) in engineering in 1974. The same year heworked as post-doctoral researcher in Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of London and worked with the internationally renowned Professor D.B.Spalding, FRS, in which continues to work to date.

He worked until 1984 at CHAM Ltd company as director of the Department of Aerospace (1976) and then (from 1977 onwards) as director of the Application Development all research departments of the company. In December 1982 he was elected assistant professor in the School of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Greenwitch, London. Since April 1983 he worked alongside as a Visiting Professor in Computational Fluid Dynamics Unit of Imperial College of London. From 1974 he worked as a technical consultant to many research centers and government institutions in many countries.

In 1985 he was elected Professor of Chemical Engineering, NTUA and the years 1990 and 1992 was twice elected president of the same department, a position he held until 1994. He was elected Dean of the NTUA twice, in 1991 and 1994. Since 2002 he is Senior Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge.

He was a municipal councilor in the municipality of Athens from 1994 to 1998.

He was a candidate MP with the political party PASOK in B 'Athens in the 2004 national elections. Also, in the national elections on 6 May 2012 and in the elections for the European Parliament in 2014 participated as a candidate of the political party Independent Greeks. In July 2014 he disagreed with the president of the Independent Greeks Panos Kammenos about issues on Cyprus and has since put out party.

He is married to Christina Kroussia and is father of 3 children.


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