“Evaluation of the existing methods to assess microplastics. A strategic approach to mitigate pollution through comprehensive understating of microplastic pollution in isolated areas.”
Presentation title: The impact of microplastics in the coastal and agri sector on isolated communities
Dr Antonis Zorpas is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD in Environmental Management and Engineering. He is actively engaged with several Universities and Research Institutes in Europe. He is now an Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus (Faculty of Pure and Applied Science and he is the Director of the Lab of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability as well as director of the Postgraduate Master Program in Sustainable Environmental Engineering). He has more than 600 publications (including editor in scientific books, contribution to books, papers in scientific journals and international conferences and with Google h-index>55). In addition, he is acting as Editor / Associate Editor on behalf of several Scientific Journals (which belong to SAGE, Elsevier, Springer, MDPI etc). He is the editor of the Chemical Engineering Journal.
For more than 20 years, he has been acting as a Consulting Engineer on behalf of several industrial activities, government and local authorities. He was on the Board of experts on the EURASHE Committee in Brussels (European Association of Institutions in Higher Education 2016-2019) as well as on the Consultation forum of the European Defence Agency (since 2022) and his Scientific Co-operator with EU since 2008 (DG Environment).
His research background is in the area of Strategic Panning Development in the Framework of Waste Management, Circular Economy and Bioeconomy, Waste to energy, End of Waste Criteria, waste minimization, zero waste approach, waste prevention, Food waste, Life Cycle Assessment, Gamified Environmental Tools, metaverse on environmental performance, Critical Infrastructure waste management etc. He has participated in more than 70 EU research projects in the last 15 years.
In 2019 he received honorary distinction for his long-standing contribution to the environmental issues of Cyprus from the President of the Republic of Cyprus. Furthermore, he has been recognized since 2019 among the world's top 2% in the list of scholars in the field of Environmental Science from the Stanford University (USA)/Elsevier Report which includes the list of the most influential researchers in the world. (In 2023 was in position 258 out of 100,000 in the field of Environmental Sciences at the Global Level)
His publication record can be found here
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D7koX6YAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonis_Zorpas
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603816522
His extended Profile in LinkedIn can be found here
