Manolis Papadrakakis (Greek: Μανόλης Παπαδρακάκης; 27 September 1948 in Heraklion, Crete), is a Greek Professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, who works in Computational Mechanics.Professor Papadrakakis received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1971 and he continued his studies at the City University of London, UK, where he received an MSc in Structural Engineering (1975) and a PhD in Computational Mechanics (1978).