Professor Dimitris Drikakis Presented “Scientific AI” Pathway From Prototype to Flightline at the Think-Tank Bauhaus Luftfahrt’s Symposium 2025

Professor Dimitris Drikakis, Dean of Sciences & Engineering at the University of Nicosia, delivered an invited talk at the Bauhaus Luftfahrt Symposium 2025 (18-19 November 2025) hosted at Munich Airport. The Symposium convenes international aviation experts and decision-makers from industry, research, and politics to advance the path to climate-neutral aviation, presenting innovative concepts and initiating joint projects that translate ideas into implementable programmes.

Marking Bauhaus Luftfahrt’s 20th anniversary, the 2025 edition –“From 2005 to 2070 – Our Journey to the Future of Aviation” – examined the economic, policy, and technology dimensions shaping aviation’s transformation. Alongside a high-level lineup spanning academia, industry, and government, Professor Drikakis contributed to the theme “Transformative Role of AI: Potential and Pathways” with his talk “From Prototype to Flightline: Operationalising AI Safely and at Scale”.

His message: transforming aviation hinges on scientific AI – physics-informed models, transformer surrogates, and digital twins delivering fast, testable predictions -backed by rigorous Verification & Validation, disciplined data scrutiny, and uncertainty-aware KPIs to bridge prototype to flightline.