Collaborating Faculty Members

Dr E. Steiakakis acquired a Bachelor Degree in Geology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc Degree in Engineering Geology from the Leeds University.

Dr. Vakalas Ioannis is a geologist who has worked in various fields, such as sedimentology, petroleum geology, hydrogeology, soil & rock mechanics, for over 20 years. He has worked as a sub-contractor for major energy companies in Greece such as Energean Oil and Gas, Repsol, Hellenic Petroleum Upstream, Hellenic Hydrocarbons, and Energy Resources Management Company. During his tenure, he has supervised several oil & gas exploration projects.

Mr. Dimitris Marinakis holds an Assistant Professor position in Petroleum Production Engineering at the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia.

George Arampatzis is an Associate Professor at the School of Production Engineering and Management (PEM) of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), teaching “Heat Transfer” “Rational Energy Management in Production Systems” and “Fluid Mechanics”. He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1991 and his PhD in 2000 from the National Technical University of Athens.

Dr. Vassilis Gaganis holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, a MSc and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the Technical University of Crete. Currently he holds an Assistant Professor position at the National Technical University of Athens, School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering.

Aristidis Koutroulis is Associate Professor of Applied Hydraulics and Hydrology at the Technical University of Crete. He is Head of the Hydrologic and Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.

Nikolaos A. Diangelakis is an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the Technical University of Crete. Prior to that, he was a Lead Optimisation Engineer ta Octeract Ltd.

Maria Louloudi is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department of the University of Ioannina. She is the head of the Biomimetic Catalysis & Hybrid Materials Research Laboratory that she founded http://catalysis.chem.uoi.gr. She started her research career as a doctor of the same Department.

Dr. Dionysia Kolokotsa is Professor and Dean of the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, in the field of Energy Resources Management.

Dr. Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou is Associate Professor at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete and Director of the Laboratory of “Environmental Catalysis”. She received her diploma in Chemical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Patras and her M.Sc and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2006 from the same University.