It is with great honor and pleasure that we inform you that at BAPT 2025, a greeting will be delivered by Professor Ioannis Chatjigeorgiou, Rector of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)! 

Professor Chatjigeorgiou is the Rector of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), since November 2023. During 2019 – 2023 he was the Vice Rector responsible for ‘Research and Life-Long Education’. He is a graduate from the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of NTUA. He received his Diploma (Dipl.-Eng.) in 1990 and was awarded his PhD in 1997. After working in the industry for 4 years, he joined the faculty of NTUA’s School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in 2001. He passed through all academic ranks until he was elected Full Professor in August 2016.

Prof. Chatjigeorgiou’s research interests include hydrodynamical fluid-structure interaction problems, analytical hydrodynamics with applications to violent slamming phenomena and structural nonlinear dynamics with applications to marine structures.