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TAGARIS EFTHYMIOS

Associate Professor “Solid and Gaseous Waste Process Engineering”

Head of Chemical Engineering Department

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Education

Summary

Dr. Efthimios Tagaris is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia (Engineering process of solid waste and atmospheric pollution). He holds a degree in Physics (Department of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1989) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (Department of Environment at the University of the Aegean, Greece, 2002). His appointments and professional activities include Research Scientist and Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Environment at the University of the Aegean, Greece (2002-2005), Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Engineer at CEE at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (2005-2009), Research Scientist at the Environmental Research Lab. at the NCRC “Demokritos”, Greece (2009-2016), Research Scientist and Adjunct Instructor at the Departments of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece (2016 – 2018). He was the principal researcher in 11 projects (National, EU, USA) and he has participated in other 8 projects since 2002. His publications record counts 27 publications in peer review journals (average I.F 5,63 (JCR), h index 14, citations without self-citationsations 795, based on Scopus 24/1/2023), 91 publications in conference proceedings και 4 book chapters. His scientific work has been cited by IPCC and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and has been included in newsletters in the USA (American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) and U.S. EPA) as well as in Greece (Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention (HCDCP) and the Modern Techincal Review). His research interests include solid waste management, biogas, air pollution, air quality modeling, air pollution health effects, climate change impact on air quality, numerical weather prediction models, and regional climate models. In 2006 he was selected and participated in the UCAR/NCAR Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions (JFF) while in 2009 he was awarded the Outstanding Research Faculty/ Postdoc Award, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Recent publications

Impact of peri-urban forest fires on air quality and aerosol optical and chemical properties: The case of the August 2021 wildfires in Athens, Greece.Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168028

The Importance of Wind Simulations over Dried Lake Beds for Dust Emissions in the Middle East.Atmosphere. DOI: 10.3390/atmos15010024

WRF Physics Ensemble Performance Evaluation over Continental and Coastal Regions in Germany.Atmosphere. DOI: 10.3390/atmos14010017

Temperature and Precipitation Bias Patterns in a Dynamical Downscaling Procedure over Europe during the Period 1951–2010.Atmosphere. DOI: 10.3390/atmos13081338

Decarbonization and Transition to the Post-Lignite Era: Analysis for a Sustainable Transition in the Region of Western Macedonia.Sustainability (Switzerland). DOI: 10.3390/su141610173

Investigating the WRF temperature and precipitation performance sensitivity to spatial resolution over central Europe.Atmosphere. DOI: 10.3390/atmos12020278

Impact of shipping emissions on ozone levels over Europe: assessing the relative importance of the Standard Nomenclature for Air Pollution (SNAP) categories.Environmental Science and Pollution Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-9046-x

Courses 2023-2024

Atmospheric pollution

Solid waste management

Physics II

Toxic and hazardous waste management

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