PROFESSOR
Laboratory of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management and Technology (director)
CURRICULUM VITAE
Address:
Department of Environmental Engineering,
Democritus University of Thrace
GR 671 32, Xanthi, Greece
Office hours for students:
Monday & Wednesday 12.00-14.30 (PROKAT building, 2nd floor) and any time after appointment.
Phone:
+30 25410 79745
+30 697 4453554
E-mail:
dkomilis@env.duth.gr / dkomilis@gmail.com
Ph.D. students supervised and finished: 1 (Georgios Garbounis)
Ph.D. students under supervision: 2 (Sofia Kondyli, Alexis Evangelou)
Post.Doctoral researchers: 1 (Georgios Garbounis)
Education:
- B.Sc.: Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece, 1992.
- M.Sc.: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA, 1995.
- Ph.D.: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA, 1999.
Introduction
My main research interests focus on all aspects of solid waste management (valorization and recycling, composting, anaerobic digestion, landfilling). Lately, I focus on bioplastics degradation and wasted pesticide plastic container management. I have co-authored more than 100 SCI journal articles, and these articles have more than 7000 citations according to Google Scholar. Details on these metrics here:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k2_K1VoAAAAJ&hl=el
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitrios-Komilis
With regard to academic teaching, I teach undergraduate and graduate classes on Solid Waste Management, with emphasis on circular economy aspects, and Applied Statistics / Experimental Design. I have authored two text books alone (in Greek) on the above two topics. Since 2018, I am the Head of the Laboratory of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management at the Dept. of Environmental Engineering in D.U.Th. and was the coordinator of a graduate course on solid waste management at the Hellenic Open University and of a graduate program in D.U.Th. Currently, I am a co-Editor in Chief of the Waste Management journal (Elsevier), which is related to solid waste management (IF=7.1). For the last 5 years, I belong to the top 2% of most cited scientists in environmental engineering worldwide (in both categories), as this is calculated by a colleague at Stanford University and reported at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7
