Maria Petala

Margaritis Kostoglou is a Chemical Engineer (Diploma, PhD), serving as Professor of Chemical Technology in the School of Chemistry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, since 2004. He worked previously as a researcher at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and as a chemical engineer for the Ministry of Defense. His main research interests are in: fundamentals of chemical technology processes; analysis of transport phenomena; analysis, description, design, and optimization of unit operations and chemical reactors; and mathematical modeling of physicochemical processes in several scales. A large part of his work is devoted to modeling and to analyzing data from structured catalytic reactors, particulate processes, and membrane system operation. He is the author of more than 270 journal publications and more than 290 conference presentations. His work has received more than 5000 hetero-citations (Scopus). He has participated in more than 50 European, national or industrial research programs. At present, he is the supervisor of four PhD students.