Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou

Dr. Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou is Associate Professor at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece and Director of the Laboratory of “Environmental Catalysis”. She received her diploma in Chemical Engineering in 2001 and her M.Sc and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2006 from the University of Patras. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras and in the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, USA.

Her research activities are focused in the fields of Heterogeneous Catalysis and, especially, in materials synthesis and characterization, catalyst development and evaluation, and investigation of reaction kinetics and mechanisms, with emphasis given in environmental and energy-related applications. Of particular interest is the investigation of the surface chemistry and structure of dispersed metallic systems and of reducible metal oxides and their mixtures. She is the co-author of 54 articles in international refereed journals and 2 book chapters. Her published work has more than 4150 citations (source Scopus) with an h-index of 35 and has been presented in 46 international 24 and national conferences. She is also regular reviewer in more than 25 international scientific journals including Applied Catalysis B, ACS Catalysis, Chemical Engineering Journal. Journal of Catalysis etc.

She is the coordinator of 2 research projects funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology and the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I.) and has participated in 11 research projects. She is the supervisor of three Ph.D thesis and has supervised 7 master theses and 9 undergraduate Diploma theses at the Technical University of Crete and the Hellenic Open University.

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