Infrastructure and Environment

• PhD in Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete
• MSc in Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete
• Diploma (BEng/MEng) in Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

• Year 4/5, Water and Wastewater Systems 4
• Year 3, Conceptual Design and Sustainability 3
• Year 2, Environmental Engineering and Sustainability 2

• Wastewater treatment
• Water disinfection
• Environmental sustainability
• Advanced oxidation processes
• Photocatalysis
• Electrolysis
• Life cycle assessment
• Microplastics

Andrea has a first degree in Chemical Engineering at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal, followed by an Industrial Placement at Fujifilm, former Avecia in Grangemouth working on dye purification for inkjet printers using membrane technology.

During her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, she carried out extensive research focused on the removal of organic and inorganic trace contaminants from water (e.g. hormones, pesticides, uranium) using membrane technology. She subsequently participated in the AFFIRM project “Analysis of biofilm mediated fouling of nanofiltration membranes” funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the EU Framework Programme 7 (project 278530; Total budget: €1.5M) in Ireland as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow between 2012 and 2013. The work focused in understanding bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation on nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes.

Andrea’s current research projects focus on developing new technologies and materials for sustainable desalination, water and wastewater treatment processes with the aim of recovering a high yield of resources such as potable water, bioenergy and chemicals. Her projects involve:

• Water and wastewater remediation with biochar from waste in collaboration with the Biochar Centre in the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
• Aquaculture wastewater bioremediation with algae and other living organisms for the recovery of water, biomass and bioenergy in collaboration with Scottish Association for Marine Science and Aquaculture Industries;
• Desalination, water and wastewater treatment with membrane technology and novel nanomaterials;
• Molecular level characterisation of dissolved organic matter for improved water treatment in collaboration with the School of Chemistry, the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh and Scottish Water.

Andrea’s research results have been published in several journals such as Water Research, Environmental Science and Technology, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science and Journal of Membrane Science.

2005 Five-year Diploma degree in Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon (equivalent to 1^st honours MEng)

2011 PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Edinburgh on the study of the adsorption and removal of endocrine disruptors by nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane processes.

• Water Resources 2 (CIVE08021)
• Water and Wastewater Systems 3 (CIVE09026)
• Group Design Project (Potable Water Supply) (SCEE11003)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering) University College Dublin

• MSc Structural Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2004
• PhD Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, 2008
• MEng Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2002

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• The Finite Elemenent Method
• Soil Mechanics
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Engineering Mathematics

• Mechanics of generalised continua
• Micromechanics of materials
• Computational Mechanics
• Mechanics of geomaterials