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About Ioannis Katsoyiannis
- Ioannis Katsoyiannis (born 4 December 1974) is a Greek environmental chemist, currently assistant professor at the department of chemistry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
- He has earned a reputation among aquatic chemists because of his studies on the development of novel technologies for arsenic removal from groundwaters, especially the investigation and development of biological arsenic removal.
- His publications about this subject have received more than 1000 citations.He was born in Thessaloniki, in Greece in 1974.
- He undertook his primary school at the Mantoulidis primary school and gymnasium at the first gymnasium of Thessaloniki. In 1992 he entered the Department of Chemistry of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which he graduated in 1997.
- In 1998 he finished his Master of Science studies at Heriot Watt University of Edinburgh in Environmental Pollution Control Management.
- Following he did his PhD at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki under the supervision of Prof.
- Zouboulis, on the subject of arsenic removal from groundwaters.
- During his PhD studies, he obtained a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y).
- He visited the Technical University of Berlin twice, with a short term research fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and worked in Berlin at the research site Marienfelde of Umweltbundesamt.
- For his PhD studies, in 2006 he received together with Professor Zouboulis the Award of Chemistry from Empirikion Foundation in Athens.
- In 2003 he served the Greek army and upon dismissal, he obtained a fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Stifftung to conduct post doctoral research at the Technical University of Berlin in the group of Professor Martin Jekel, in the field of aquatic chemistry of uranium and its removal from groundwaters. In 2006 he earned a Marie Curie Individual Intra European fellowship to perform research at the water research institute (Eawag) of ETH Zürich in the group of Dr.
- Stephan Hug. In 2008, he continued at the same Institute, in the group of Professor Urs von Gunten, participating in the TECHNEAU project, which aimed at developing technologies for universal access to safe water.
- From 2009 to 2014 he worked as supervisor engineer for the giant engineering companies Alstom Power and Hitachi Power Europe, in the commissioning of some of the bigger thermal power plants of Europe, such as the almost 2 GW plant in Pembrokeshire in UK, the totally innovative combined cycle power plant in Modugno in South Italy, the Moorburg thermal power plant in Germany, near Hamburg and the power plant at Maasbracht, in Holland. He left the industrial field, to join the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, firstly as lecturer and currently as assistant professor for environmental Technology.
- In 2015 he obtained an individual fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to conduct research at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland.
- Since 2015, he is the delegate of the Greek Chemical Society to the Division of Chemistry and Environment of the European Chemical Society.
- Since March 2018, he is the chairperson of the Division of Chemistry and Environment of the European Chemical Society and serves as Editor for the journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
- and member of the editorial board for the journal sustainability (Swityerland).
- Since 2018, he is member of the selection committee for the historical landmarks of Chemistry, a project organized by EuChemS.
- on June 09, 2017, he organized the workshop "sustianable water treatment and energy transition", sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Association of Greek Chemists.
- He was the chair of the organizing committee of the 2016 Panhellenic Chemistry Conference, which was held in Thessaloniki and attracted more than 1000 participants.
- He is the conference chair of the 17th International Conference of Chemistry and the Environment (ICCE), in 2019, in Thessaloniki, which is the official environmental chemistry conference of EuChemS and is taking place under the auspices of the president of Hellenic Republic. He has been invited to give lectures in several conferences and advanced schools across Europe, such as the Panromanian Chemistry Conference, the International Conference on Pesticides and at several Humboldt Kolleg conferences, the Technical University of Hamburg, the University of Istanbul, the University of Insubria.
- In September 2019, he is invited to give a keynote lecture at the EuChemS conference for Green Chemistry, which will take place in Taragona, Spain.
- In February 2019, he received the award of excellence from the Rector of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for his election to the positions of chair of division of chemistry and environment of EuChemS and of chair of the department of chemistry of the association of Greek Chemists. Within the Association of Greek Chemists (AGC) (???s? ??????? ??µ????) he holds the position of chair of the scientific department of Environment, Health and Safety at work and he is member of the Steering Committee of the AGC and vice president responsinbe for the local branches, since the elections of November 2018.
- from November 2015 until November 2018, he was member of the steering committee of the Regional Branch of Central and Western Macedonia of the AGC.
- Since 2012, he is member of the General Assembly of the Association of Greek Chemists.
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