FRONTISTIS ZACHARIAS

Associate Professor “Water and Wastewater Process Engineering”

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Office: CP2_ ZEP
Telephone: 0030
Email: zfrontistiss@uowm.gr

Education

Degree:2005 – Environmental Engineering Department, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Master Degree: 2007 – Environmental Engineering Department, Technical University of Crete, Greece

PhD:2011 – Environmental Engineering Department, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Summary

Dr. Zacharias Frontistis is an Associate Professor of Water and Wastewater Process
Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western
Macedonia. He has served as chairman of the departments of Environmental
Engineering (2018-2019) and Chemical Engineering (2019-2021) at the University
of Western Macedonia. In 2005 he obtained a Diploma in Environmental
Engineering, in 2007 a Master’s Degree and in 2011 a PhD in Environmental
Engineering from the Technical University of Crete. He has worked as a
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of Cyprus and at the International Water Research Centre NIREAS, at
the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Namik Kemal University
and at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras. His research
interests focus on catalysis for environmental and energy applications, the
development of new physicochemical processes for water treatment, the
combination of physicochemical and biological processes for agro-industrial
wastewater treatment and the simulation of these processes. He has supervised or
co-supervised a large number of diploma and postgraduate theses. He has
published a large number of articles both in high impact international journals
>130 articles, h index 40, ≈4000 citations (Scopus) and in international conference
proceedings (>60) and is author of 2 chapters of books on advance wastewater
treatment and reuse. He is a reviewer in more than 50 high-impact scientific
journals for >600 papers and is part of the editorial board of 5 international
journals and has been guest editor in 11 special issues in his fields of interest. He
has participated in more than 17 research projects (European and national
projects.

Recent publications


Electrochemical oxidation of losartan on a BDD electrode: Influence of cathodes and electrolytes on the degradation kinetics and pathways.Water Resources and Industry. DOI: 10.1016/j.wri.2024.100240

Sonocatalytic degradation of Bisphenol A from aquatic matrices over Pd/CeO<inf>2</inf> nanoparticles: Kinetics study, transformation products, and toxicity.Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170820

A comparative assessment of carbonaceous electrodes with diverse interfacial properties for H<inf>2</inf>O<inf>2</inf> electrogeneration.Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. DOI: 10.1002/jctb.7589

Fabrication of a novel MoB/BiOCl photocatalyst for losartan and Escherichia coli removal.Catalysis Today. DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2024.114510

Acesulfame degradation by thermally activated persulfate: Kinetics, transformation products and estimated toxicity.Chemosphere. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141260

Innovative Catalytic Materials for Environmental Remediation and Energy Applications.Catalysts. DOI: 10.3390/catal14020102

Persulfate Activation Using Biochar from Pomegranate Peel for the Degradation of Antihypertensive Losartan in Water: The Effects of Pyrolysis Temperature, Operational Parameters, and a Continuous Flow Reactor.Catalysts. DOI: 10.3390/catal14020127

Courses 2023-2024

Soil and groundwater treatment technologies

Environmental engineering

Life cycle assessment & Circular economy
(Courses catalogue)