Antonis Kokossis

Professor of Process Systems Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens & Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK

Professor Kokossis holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from NTUA and a PhD from Princeton University. He returned to his alma mater in 2009 following an overseas academic career in UK at the University of Manchester (formerly UMIST). He holds expertise in process systems design and process integration, recently with a strong emphasis on renewable energy systems, process intensification and the design of biorefineries and industrial symbiosis networks. His research has addressed the design of multiphase reactors, complex separation and reactive-separation systems, energy and power networks, and environmental problems across a wide spectrum of applications (water reuse, recycle, and regeneration systems, wastewater management, gasification, waste to energy projects). He has established collaboration with several industrial companies (UOP, ICI, Bayer, Mitsubishi, Exxon, Eastman, MW Kellogg, BP Oil, Unilever, Chimar, BPF, CIMV, DSM, Arkema, Granherne, Linnhoff-March) and graduated 28 PhD and 50 MSc students. He holds over 300 communications in international conferences, and 80 invited lectures in conferences universities, and multinational companies. He is National Representative of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the National Representative of the IBISBA EU research infrastructure on Industrial Biotechnology, the Greek Secretary for Research and Technology in Climate Change (GSRT), and the Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) Group of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). Since 2020 he is the scientific director of Symbiolabs, a spin-off company that relies on AI and data technologies to promote renewable applications and social engagement in the context of circular economy.

He is founder and Chair of the Sustainability Section at EFCE and an elected member of the Executive Board of Trustees at the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE).