
Professor Iraklis Lazakis
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Area of Expertise
Throughout the last few years I have developed and enhanced my expertise in areas including ship operations, systems maintenance and reliability, ship systems condition monitoring, risk analysis tools and methodologies, system criticality assessment, shipyard manufacturing and productivity, asset management, wind-wave-tidal energy devices, renewable projects operation and maintenance, project management.
Prize And Awards
- SNAME West of Europe Section (WES) best paper award
- Recipient
- 26/7/2023
- SNAME Graduate Paper Honor Prize Winner 2022
- Recipient
- 29/9/2022
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Certificate of Excellence
- Recipient
- 6/1/2022
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Certificate of Excellence
- Recipient
- 22/9/2020
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Certificate of Excellence
- Recipient
- 22/9/2020
- Certificate of appreciation
- Recipient
- 7/2/2020
Qualifications
Esteem
O&M session champion/chair in Taiwan and Japan for the EPSRC-funded EPENET (Edinburgh-Pacific Partnership of Excellence in New Energy Technologies) project, workshops and events held in Hsinchu (Taiwan) and Kyoto (Japan) at the beginning of March 2013
ISSC committee IV.2 member 2012-2015. The International Ships and offshore Structures Congress is a prestigious event held every three years. It is a forum for the exchange of information by experts undertaking and applying marine structural research. The aim of the ISSC is to further understanding in the various disciplines underpinning marine structural design, production and operation through internationally collaborative endeavours.
ISSC 2012 committee observer
Laureate of the Edelman awards 2012. The Franz Edelman competition attests to the contributions of operations research and analytics in both the profit and non-profit sectors. The purpose of the Franz Edelman competition is to bring forward, recognize and reward outstanding examples of operations research, management science and advanced analytics in practice in the world
Publications
- Advancements and challenges of onboard carbon capture and storage technologies for the maritime industry : a comprehensive review
- Ahmed Yaseen Adnan, Lazakis Iraklis, Mallouppas George
- Marine Systems & Ocean Technology Vol 20 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40868-024-00161-w
- A novel shipyard performance measurement approach through an integrated Value Engineering and Risk Assessment (VENRA) framework using a hybrid MCDM tool
- Baihaqi Imam, Lazakis Iraklis, Supomo Heri
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment Vol 238, pp. 911-932 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/14750902231219533
- Development of a hierarchical clustering method for anomaly identification and labelling of marine machinery data
- Velasco-Gallego Christian, Lazakis Iraklis, Cubo-Mateo Nieves
- Journal of Marine Science and Engineering Vol 12 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12101792
- Development of a novel integrated value engineering and risk assessment (VENRA) framework for shipyard performance measurement : a case study for an Indonesian shipyard
- Baihaqi Imam, Lazakis Iraklis, Kurt Rafet Emek
- Ships and Offshore Structures Vol 19, pp. 1118-1133 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17445302.2023.2228115
- Systems reliability and data driven analysis for marine machinery maintenance planning and decision making
- Daya Abdullahi Abdulkarim, Lazakis Iraklis
- Machines Vol 12 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12050294
- Analysis of attention mechanisms for the prediction of ship fuel oil consumption
- Velasco-Gallego Christian, Lazakis Iraklis, Polaki Vedanjali
- 63rd International Congress of Naval Architecture Marine Technology and Maritime Industry (2024)
Teaching
Since my appointment at the Dpt of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde i have been teaching the following modules/subjects:
Undergaduate level
Analysis tools for marine design, Principles of Marine design and production, System availability and maintenance
Postgraduate level
System availability and maintenance
Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore renewables (IDCORE): marine operations, maintenance and reliability, systems condition monitoring, project management
I am also currently supervising a number of undergraduate, postgraduate and Phd students regarding their individual projects/thesis, acting as lead supervisor on subjects such as: systems maintenance and reliability, ship systems condition monitoring, risk analysis, criticality assessment, shipyard manufacturing and productivity, asset management, wind-wave-tidal energy devices, renewable projects operation and maintenance, project management.
Professional Activities
- Phd viva
- Examiner
- 22/5/2023
- Yorkshire Post report on Petrel vessel accident at Leith drydock
- Recipient
- 14/4/2023
- The Scotsman report on Petrel vessel accident at Leith drydock
- Recipient
- 14/4/2023
- Western Daily Press report on Petrel vessel accident at Leith drydock
- Recipient
- 14/4/2023
- The Times report on Petrel vessel accident at Leith drydock
- Recipient
- 14/4/2023
- Righting toppled ship in drydock will be ‘very complicated’, warns marine expert
- Recipient
- 13/4/2023
Projects
- Calmac vessel survey
- Lazakis, Iraklis (Principal Investigator)
- Calmac vessel survey and research review related to corrosion issues during a vessels lifecycle.
- 01-Jan-2024 - 09-Jan-2024
- Initial development of a simulation/optimisation framework for advanced offshore renewables operations, maintenance, and logistics (AKT)
- Lazakis, Iraklis (Principal Investigator)
- 25-Jan-2024 - 24-Jan-2024
- Royal yacht Britannia structural survey
- Lazakis, Iraklis (Principal Investigator) Gunbeyaz, Sefer Anil (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- Retrofitting towards climate neutrality (GreenMarine)
- Lazakis, Iraklis (Principal Investigator) Boulougouris, Evangelos (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2027
- OWA Vessel Emission Metric Development (VEMD)
- Lazakis, Iraklis (Principal Investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator)
- Offshore Wind Association project on vessel emission metric
- 06-Jan-2021 - 08-Jan-2022
- Carnot Marine Vessel APUs - Feasibility Study
- Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Principal Investigator) Boulougouris, Evangelos (Co-investigator) Lazakis, Iraklis (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
Contact
Professor
Iraklis
Lazakis
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: iraklis.lazakis@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3070