SuSChemE-SUSTENS 2 will be held at a Hotel-Conferece center in the center of Athens (Greece). The venue offers the amazing view of Acropolis and key local spots.
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| Suschem GR is the Greek chapter of the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem), established to promote innovation and sustainability in the chemical and process industries in Greece. Its mission is to encourage collaboration among industry, academia, research institutions, policymakers, and wider society to develop innovative chemical solutions that address environmental challenges, improve resource efficiency, and align with the principles of the European Green Deal and the transition to a circular economy. By engaging diverse stakeholders, Suschem GR ensures that its initiatives have a broad societal impact and contribute to a sustainable future. The founding members of SUSCHEM GR comprise a dynamic alliance of leading organizations from Greece’s industrial, academic, and research communities, united by a shared commitment to advancing sustainable chemistry and driving innovation at the national and European levels. Suschem GR is currently engaged in the IRISS project which is a Coordination and Support Action project within the research and innovation funding programme Horizon Europe, aiming to connect, synergize and transform the Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) community in Europe and globally, towards a lifecycle approach, with integrated safety, climate neutrality, circularity, and functionality aspects already at an early stage of design of materials and products, including their production processes. Suschem GR leads one of the four Regional Nodes—the South-Western Node of NTPs and FEMs—playing a central role in building the Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) community in this region, through networking and dissemination activities.Website: https://suschem-gr.org/ |
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Professor (NTUA), Industrial Process Systems Engineering Dr. Kokossis, FIChemE, FIEE, FRSA, and FIET, is Professor of Process Systems Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He is a Chartered Engineer with IChemE (UK). He holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from NTUA and a PhD from Princeton University. Prior to NTUA, he worked for 17 years in UK. He is now the co-director of the National Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry, a National Representative of Directorate I (Climate Change & Environment), Affiliate of IEA Bioenergy and EERA Bioenergy, and the Greek Delegate of the Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) group of EFCE. His expertise includes process systems design, modelling, process integration, and optimization. He published extensively and has consulted with the process industry (UOP, Bayer, Mitsubishi, Eastman, MW Kellogg, BP Oil, Unilever) and, more recently, with biorefineries and smaller companies on renewables. He has established collaboration with several industrial companies including several industries dedicated to the development of renewable energy and chemicals. He has graduated 25 PhD and 46 MSc students. He holds 142 communications in international conferences, 129 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 70 invited lectures in conferences universities, and multinational companies. He serves as the National Representative of the IBISBA EU research infrastructure on Industrial Biotechnology. He is an elected member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) and leads the New EFCE Sustanability section. E-Mail: akokossis@chemeng.ntua.gr Website: https://ipsen.ntua.gr/ |
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Dr. Konstantinos Pyrgakis is a Chemical Engineer (NTUA). He also holds an MSc in Computational Mechanics and a PhD in Chemical Engineering (NTUA), both related with the field of Process Systems Engineering and the design of industrial processes, notably in applications for biorefineries, circular economy and industrial networks. He was funded with a scholarship for his PhD studies and has 23 scientific publications. He has 14-year experience in engineering consultancy and academic research having participated in multiple EU-funded and National research projects so much as a researcher and a Project Manager. His engineering expertise includes process synthesis, modeling and optimization; water and energy integration; techno-economic analysis; LCA; Computational Fluid Dynamics; and fuels quality control. E-Mail: k.pyrgakis@sustenshub.com |