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Dr. Petros Gikas is Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, and director of the \u201cDesign of Environmental Processes Laboratory\u201d. 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 \u2013 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 course \u201cDesign of Environmental Processes and Environmental Impact Assessment\u201d of the 8th and 9th semester at the School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete. He also teaches the postgraduate courses \u201cAdvanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies\u201d, \u201cBiorefineries-Waste Valorization\u201d and \u201cEnvironmental Impact Assessment\u201d. During 2014-2020 he was teaching the postgraduate course \u201cWastewater management\u201d 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 \u201cManagement and Treatment of Wastewater\u201d. 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, Chamb\u00e9ry, 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, Erevan, 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.\nDr. Gikas is the author of more than 70 scientific articles, while he has presented his research findings in more than 150 conferences. Dr. Gikas is serving as reviewer in more than 30 scientific journals. Dr. Gikas serves as associate editor for the \u201cJournal of Environmental Management\u201d, an ISI journal published by Elsevier, with impact factor of 5.65, member of the editorial boards of the \u201cBritish Journal of Environment and Climate Change\u201d (Science Domain International), the \u201cBioMed Research International\u201d (Hindawi), \u201cWater\u201d (MDPI) and \u201cHeliyon\u201d (Elsevier), a new multidisciplinary journal by Elsevier. Moreover, he has participated in the edition of a number of Special Issues in scientific journals: Biomed Research International (Subject: Toxicity of Environmental Contaminants), Journal of Environmental Management (Subjects: (a) Waste and Wastewater Management (lead), (b) Sustainable Waste and Wastewater Management, (c) Feacal Waste Management (lead), (d) Cross-cutting approaches for tackling water security of the Anthropocene), Applied and Environmental Soil Science (Subject: Soil Pollution Prevention and Remediation) Water (Subject: Design, Operation and Economics of Wastewater Treatment Plant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"