Environment and Development: Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications

Vassilis J. Inglezakis is a Reader at the Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, UK. He graduated from the Chemical Engineering Department of the National Technical University of Greece in 1996 and received his PhD in 2002. His area of research is in the broader area of Environmental Chemical Engineering, covering water/wastewater treatment, adsorption processes, porous materials and nanocomposites, capture and valorization of CO2, soil pollution and solid waste management. Since 2017, he has extended his research on applying chemical engineering principles to extraterrestrial environments, with a particular interest in Mars. He has rich academic output with more than 140 Journal papers and authored 2 books published with Elsevier. His work has received more than 6,000 citations (Scopus) and has an h-index of 42. He was listed in the "World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists in 2022" Stanford University database figuring at the top 0.78% of all scientists considered. Besides academia, he has extensive experience as a consultant engineer in the private sector participating in more than 40 projects in several countries. He was appointed as Pre-Accession Advisor at the Ministry of Environment of Slovakia (2004-2005) and Romania (2006-2007) for the preparations of the countries for EU membership. He has been project proposals evaluator for the European Commission and several other educational bodies in the UK, Romania, Russia, Kazakhstan, Greece, Thailand, and Chile. He has solid experience in building experimental laboratories and facilities and he led the development of 31 teaching and research labs in the period of 2013-2016 in Kazakhstan. In 2016, he received an award from the Ministry of Education for distinguished contribution to the country’s education system. He has been teaching process and plant design using simulation in UG and MEng/MSc levels since 2015.