Professor Emeritus of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete
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Short CV
Nicolas Kalogerakis is Professor Emeritus of Biochemical Engineering at the Technical University of Crete (Greece), where he has served as Vice-President of the University Council and twice as Department Head. Prior to that, he was a Professor at SUNY-Buffalo (USA) and at the University of Calgary (Canada). He holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, an MEng from McGill University and a PhD from the University of Toronto. He also holds a Doctor Honoris Causa awarded by TU-Iasi (2022). His area of expertise includes environmental biotechnology focusing on bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies for the restoration of contaminated sites; protection and restoration of the marine environment focusing on oil spills and plastics/microplastics; novel oxygenation systems based on nanobubbles; and agricultural wastewater treatment. Currently, his group is participating in three H2020 & HEU funded research projects. His publication record includes six patents, one book, 257 articles and 12 Editorials in referred journals and more than 200 presentations at international conferences. He has been an invited speaker in several conferences and academic institutions worldwide. He has over 21800 citations and an H-index of 82 (Google Scholar, Jan 2025). He has served as a member of the European Commission Environment Committee (2007-2011) and as Sherpa at the European Commission High Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies (2013-2015). Finally, he is member of the advisory board of several research institutes worldwide, and he was the recipient of the TU-Crete Research Excellence award (2017). He is the Editor-in-Chief of MDPI’s Microplastics and Associate Editor of Elsevier’s New Biotechnology as well as member of the Editorial Board of several international journals.