Education:

     Ph.D., Soil Physics, Univ. of California, Davis, 1981

     M.S.,   Soil Sciences, Univ. of California, Riverside, 1974

     M.S.,   Water Resources, Univ. of California, Davis, 1977

     B.S.,   Civil and Environ. Engineering, Univ. of California, Davis, 1976

     B.S.,   Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural Univ., Athens, Greece, 1962

Working places:

(a) Greek Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural School of Messara, Iraklion, Greece; Director

(b) HAO-Demeter, Agricultural Research Institution of Crete, Iraklion 71300, Greece; National Agricultural Research Foundation: Department of Water Resources; P.O. Box 2229, 71307 Iraklion, Greece.
Tel.: +30 2810 302300 or +30 2810 225833 or +306974507042;
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(c) Invited Professor in the Technical University of Crete, Chania;

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(d) EDEYA: Technical Consultant in the Hellenic Union of Municipal Enterprises for Water Supply and Wastewater Services (EDEYA).
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(e) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): Water Consultant in the FAO of UN.

(f) Invited and Honorary Professor of Hubei University, Wuhan, China.

(g) EUREAU: Past President and Member of Board of EUREAU (European Federation of National Associations of Water and Waste Water Services), Brussels, Belgium. Also Member of EUREAU II on Wastewater.

(h) IWA: He is honorary member, Fellow, and Distinguished Fellow and he was Chair member of Joint IWA/IWHA-SG on Water history, since September 2023.

(i) He has authored or co-authored of more than 550 publications, with more than 12,000 Google citations and i10-index 148.

Present Status:

He is a highly distinguished researcher who has consistently been included in Stanford University’s prestigious "World’s Top 2% Scientists" list.

Research Areas:

Research areas include innovative water and wastewater treatment systems, wastewater reuse, decentralized wastewater treatment systems, aquatic treatment systems, and water history.

Publications and others:

-Author/co-author of about 550 publications, classified as: Theses 2, Referred Journals 151, Special Issues in Referred Journals 13, Books and Chapters in Books 79, Referred Proceedings of Meetings 118, Under Preparation and/or Submitted 1, Published Reports 104,  Studies 9, Abstracts 50, Others (mostly in Greek) 17, and Various others 20.
- Organized scientific meetings 35, invited speeches in more than 120, and presented lectures over 200 in meetings.

- Adviser of numerous Ph.D. and M.Sc. students (Ph. D. students 7, MS students 5, and Post-Doctoral Fellows 4).

- Registered member as Agriculturalist in the Geotechnical Chamber of Greece (since 1974) and of Civil Engineer in the Technical Chamber of Greece, Athens (38771, 1981)

CURRICULUM VITAE Introduction    Very short biography