PARASKEVA, Christakis

1992: PhD in Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Patras, Greece
1986: Diploma in Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Patras, Greece

• Separation Processes, wastewater treatment by membrane filtration technologies (Ultrafiltration, Nanofiltration, Reverse Osmosis, distillation, crystallization, adsorption, extraction, evaporation, freeze drying, etc. Applications in agro-industrial wastewater treatment technologies.
• Isolation and purification of bioactive compounds with high added value, from agro-industrial wastewaters.
• Technologies and particle separation methods, Particulate systems, Flow in granular porous materials, filtering of particulate pollutants, colloid particle migration within soil, computer- aided simulation of particle transport and deposition within porous media (dynamic behavior of deep bed filtration systems).
• Water & wastewater treatment methods, Design of water and wastewater treatment systems, Environmental Management and Protection.
• Crystal growth in porous media, consolidation, and stabilization of non -aggregated porous materials with inorganic salt precipitation, deposition of sparingly soluble salts in oil extraction rock formations: Applications: Consolidation of poorly consolidated oil reservoirs, stabilization of sandy soils for building purposes, protection of soil from water and wind erosion, water proofing of underground constructions (tunnels) and rainwater reservoirs.

1992-2001: Post-Doctoral Fellow, FORTH/ICE-HT & Technical Staff at Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras.

Government Scholarship Committee, Cyprus, undergraduate scholarship (1981-1986), Lordos Institution, Cyprus, undergraduate scholarship (1984-1985), ELDA (Greek Refineries), graduate scholarship (1986-1989), ICE/HT-FORTH Graduate Fellowship (1990-1991), member of Organizing committees of local (6) and international conferences (3).

Participation in international (BRITE- EURAM, ENERGY, TEMPUS, INCO-Copernicus, CRAFT, IST, Environment & Climate; Environment and Sustainable Development; Regions of Knowledge, INTERREG, LIFE, etc.), national (EPET/SPA, STRIDE, EPET, ESPA, SYNERGASIA, ARISTEIA II, PENED, PAVE, etc.) and industrial research projects.
Funding (PI or coordinator; more than 1,200,000 Euros (laboratory budget)

64 refereed journal, 8 papers in books, 56 papers in proceedings of international conferences, 47 papers in proceedings of national conferences.

Participation in 50 international and 40 national conferences, 8 posters in international conferences.

• Reviewer in 60 journals
• Reviewer in Research Proposals submitted to GSRT, EYDE/ETAK (ELIDEK), IKY (Greece), QNRF (QATAR), FONDECYT SCIENCE (CHILE), CARIPLO FOUNDATION-AGER (ITALY)
• Guest Editor in 3 special Issues
• Granted patents (1)
• Member in the organizing committee of National (7) and International conferences (2), member in international scientific committee (1)
• Award for papers in Conferences (2), award for best posters in Conferences (4)
• Participation in more than 30 projects

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Filtration Society (AFS), Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), Greek Association of Chemical Engineers.

Unit operations I, Unit Operations II, Laboratory of Unit operations I & II, Mass Transfer, Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering II (fluid mechanics, heat, and mass transfer -graduate level).

• AG Pantziaros, XA Trachili, AD Zentelis, V Sygouni, CA Paraskeva, A new olive oil production scheme with almost zero wastes, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 11 (2), 547-557, 2021
• DP Zagklis, CA Paraskeva, Preliminary design of a phenols purification plant, Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology 95 (2), 373-383, 2020
• Varvara Sygouni, Alexis G Pantziaros, Iakovos C Iakovides, Evangelia Sfetsa, Polychronia I Bogdou, Emilia A Christoforou, Christakis A Paraskeva, Treatment of two-phase olive mill wastewater and recovery of phenolic compounds using membrane technology, Membranes 9 (2), 27, 2019
• Revisiting of coagulation-flocculation processes in the production of potable water, FK Katrivesis, AD Karela, VG Papadakis, CA Paraskeva, Journal of Water Process Engineering 27, 193-204
• DP Zagklis, CA Paraskeva, Isolation of organic compounds with high added values from agro-industrial solid wastes, Journal of environmental management 216, 183-191, 2018
• Sofia Jaho, Varvara Sygouni, Stamatia G. Rokidi, John Parthenios, Petros G. Koutsoukos, Christakis A. Paraskeva Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate in Porous Media in the Presence of n-Dodecane, Crystal Growth & Design 16 (12), 6874-6884, 2016
• DP Zagklis, AI Vavouraki, ME Kornaros, CA Paraskeva, Purification of olive mill wastewater phenols through membrane filtration and resin adsorption/desorption, Journal of hazardous materials 285, 69-76, 2015
• ID Kovaios, CA Paraskeva, PG Koutsoukos, AC Payatakes, Adsorption of atrazine on soils: model study, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 299 (1), 88-94, 2008
• MG Lioliou, CA Paraskeva, PG Koutsoukos, AC Payatakes, Heterogeneous nucleation and growth of calcium carbonate on calcite and quartz, Journal of colloid and interface science 308 (2), 421-428, 2007
• C. A Paraskeva, V. G. Papadakis, E. Tsarouchi, D. G. Kanellopoulou, P.G, Membrane processing for olive mill wastewater fractionation, Desalination 213 (1-3), 218-229, 2007