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Professor, Dean of the School ChEnvEng (TUC), Design of Environmental Processes
Dr. Petros Gikas is Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, Director of the “Design of Environmental Processes Laboratory” and Vise Representative of the Scholl of Chemical and Environmental Engineering to the Research Committee of the Technical University of Crete. His research interests are focused on municipal, industrial and agricultural waste and wastewater management. He is specifically active in the design of novel wastewater treatment processes with emphasis in low cost – low energy treatment processes and on water reclamation and reuse applications. He is also working on energy recovery from biosolids and municipal solid waste, utilizing thermal or biological processes. He is also engaged in research for the development of algorithms for integrated water recourses management (with emphasis on water reuse). Since 2005 he teaches the courses “Design of Environmental Processes and Environmental Impact Assessment Ι & ΙΙ” and “Physical Chemistry”. He also teaches the postgraduate courses “Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies”, “Biorefineries-Waste Valorization” and “Environmental Impact Assessment”. During 2014-2020 he was teaching the postgraduate course “Wastewater management” at the Hellenic Open University. During the academic year 2006-2007 he visited the University of California (UC), Davis, USA, where he was engaged in environmental research at the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Biological and Agricultural Engineering. He also thought at the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering of UC Davis the postgraduate course “Management and Treatment of Wastewater”. Dr. Gikas has scientific collaboration with the Department of Chemical Engineering University College, London, UK, with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Savoie-Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France, with the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Reunion, France, with the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Biological and Agricultural Engineering UC Davis, California, with the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodists University, Texas, with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Columbia University, New York, with the Department of Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy with the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Zurich, Switzerland and with the Technological Center of Energy and the Environment (CETENMA), Murcia, Spain, with the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Botswana, Gaborone, with the Department of Civil Engineering, Kwazulu-Natal University, Durban, South Africa, with the Faculty of Chemical Technologies and Environmental Engineering, National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Yerevan, with the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Laos, Vientiane, with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, with the Department of Environmental Sciences and Renewable Resources University of Chile, Santiago, and with Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA. During his academic carrier, Dr. Gikas has supervised a number of European and Nationally funded projects, and various projects in collaboration with the industry and with public enterprises.
E-Mail: pgikas@tuc.gr |
