Nicolas Kalogerakis

• Office: Κ1.110
• Tel.: +30 28210 37794 FAX: +30 28210 37852
• Email:nicolas.kalogerakis<at>enveng.tuc.gr,  kalogera<at>gmail.com
• Personal URL:www.beeb.enveng.tuc.gr
  
  
• Office Hours: Daily 9:00 - 16:00

• 1983: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering,  Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• 1979: M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• 1977: Diploma in Chemical Engineering, NTUA

Current research interests focus on the following topics:

• Environmental Applications of nanobubble technology
• Marine litter - fate and biodegradation of weathered plastics & microplastics
• Combating marine oil spills with biological means
• Bioremediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with hydrocarbons and xenobiotics
• Phytoremediation of areas contaminated with heavy metals (Cd, Pb, Cr) and organic compounds
• Wastewater treatment and subsequent reuse and utilization
• Environmental monitoring and early warning systems
• Mathematical modeling of environmental processes

• H2020 – R&I Action, “ELECTRA: Electricity driven Low Energy and Chemical input Technology foR Accelerated bioremediation”, Lab budget 275.625 € / Total budget 6.000.000 € (2018-2022) 
• H2020 – R&I Action, “MADFORWATER: DevelopMent AnD application of integrated technological and management solutions FOR wasteWATER treatment and efficient reuse in agriculture tailored to the needs of Mediterranean African Countries”, Lab budget 215.000 € / Total budget 2.910.868 € (2016-2020) 
• Η2020 - Innovation Action, “INMARE: Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea.”, Lab budget 250.000 € / Total budget 6.000.000 € (2015-2019) 
• FP7-Collaborative Research program, “KILL•SPILL: Integrated Biotechnological Solutions for Combating Marine Oil Spills”, Co-ordinator, Lab budget 445.000 € / Total budget 8.990.000 € (2012-2016) 
• FP7-Collaborative Research program, “WATER4CROPS: Integrating bio-treated wastewater reuse and valorization with enhanced water use efficiency to support the Green Economy in Europe and India”, Lab budget 200.000 € / Total budget 6.000.000 € (2012-2016) 

• Appointed by the European Commission as Sherpa in the High Level Group (HLG) on Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) for the period 2013-2015.
• Coordinator of the FP-7 collaborative project KILL•SPILL (33 partners, 9 million euro, 2013-2016)
• 50 Most Cited Articles for the journal J. Chrom. A (2000-2005); Top-10 most cited articles for the journal Talanta (2010-2011).
• EC’s Environment Committee (2007-2011) – National representative for Greece (expert) - GSRT.
• COST FA0901 “Halophytes” – Representative of Greece at the Management Committee

• Syranidou E, Karkanorachaki, K, Amorotti F, Avgeropoulos A, Kolvenbach B, Zhou N-Y, Fava F, Corvini P and Kalogerakis N, “Biodegradation of mixture of plastic films by tailored marine consortia”, J. Hazard. Mater., 375: 33–42 (2019).
• Syranidou E, Thijs S, Avramidou M, Weyens N, Venieri D, Pintelon I, Vangronsveld J and Kalogerakis N, “Responses of the Endophytic Bacterial Communities of Juncus acutus to Pollution with Metals, Emerging Organic Pollutants and to Bioaugmentation with Indigenous Strains”, Front. Plant Sci. 9:1526 (2018).
• Karkanorachaki K, Kiparissis S, Kalogerakis GC, Yiantzi E, Psillakis E, Kalogerakis N, “Plastic pellets, meso- and microplastics on the coastline of Northern Crete: Distribution and organic pollution”, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 133, 578–589 (2018).
• Syranidou E, Karkanorachaki K, Amorotti F, Franchini M, Repouskou E, Kaliva M, Vamvakaki M, Kolvenbach B, Fava F, Corvini PF-X, Kalogerakis N. “Biodegradation of weathered polystyrene films in seawater microcosms”, Scientific Reports, 7:17991 (2017).
• Syranidou E, Karkanorachaki K, Amorotti F, Repouskou E, Kroll K, Kolvenbach B, Corvini PF-X, Fava F, Kalogerakis N. “Development of tailored indigenous marine consortia for the degradation of naturally weathered polyethylene films”, PLoS ONE, 12(8): e0183984 (2017).
• Mapelli, F., Scoma, A., Michoud, G., Aulenta, F., Boon, N., Borin, S., Kalogerakis, N., Daffonchio, D., “Biotechnologies for Marine Oil Spill Cleanup: Indissoluble Ties with Microorganisms”, Trends in Biotechnology, 9: 860-870 (2017).
• Kalogerakis N, Karkanorachaki K, Kalogerakis GC, Triantafyllidi E, Gotsis AD, Partsinevelos P and Fava F., Microplastics generation: Onset of fragmentation of polyethylene films in marine environment mesocosms. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:84 (2017). doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00084   
• Syranidou, E., S. Christofilopoulos, M. Politi, N. Weyens, D. Venieri, J. Vangronsveld and N. Kalogerakis “Bisphenol-A removal by the halophyte Juncus acutus in a phytoremediation pilot: Characterization and potential role of the endophytic community”, J. Hazard. Mater., 323: 350–358 (2017). 
• Fodelianakis, S., E. Antoniou, F. Mapelli, M. Magagnini, M. Nikolopoulou, R. Marasco, M. Barbato, A. Tsiola, I. Tsikopoulou, L. Giaccaglia, M. Mahjoubi, A. Jaouani, R. Amer, E. Hussein, F.A. Al-Horani, F. Benzha, M. Blaghe, H.I. Malkawi, Y. Abdel-Fattah, A. Cherif, D. Daffonchio and N. Kalogerakis, “Allochthonous bioaugmentation in ex situ treatment of crude oil-polluted sediments in the presence of an effective degrading indigenous microbiome”, J. Hazard. Mater., 287: 78-86 (2015). 
• Antoniou E, Fodelianakis S, Korkakaki E and Kalogerakis N “Biosurfactant production from marine hydrocarbon-degrading consortia and pure bacterial strains using crude oil as carbon source”, Front. Microbiol. 6: 274 (2015). doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00274 

• [ENVE 317] Reaction Engineering (Chemical and Biochemical Processes) (5th Semester – Required)
• [ENVE 446] Biological Methods for Environmental Remediation (8th Semester – Elective)

• Margarita Petousi
• Katerina Karkanorachaki
• Georgios Kokkoris
• Dimitrios Ntentakis
• Georgia Charalampous (HFRI, Ε. Gontikaki)
• Efsevia Fragkou (HFRI, Ε. Antoniou)
• Despoina Varamogianni (HFRI, Μ. Mandalakis)