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 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 is a reviewer
in more than 50 high-impact scientific journals is part of the editorial board
of 5 international journals and has been a guest editor in 11 special issues in
his fields of interest. He has participated in more than 17 research projects
(European and national projects.
