Nicolas Moussiopoulos

Nicolas Moussiopoulos
Born	(1956-01-01) January 1, 1956 Athens, Greece

Nicolas Moussiopoulos (in Greek Νικόλαος Μουσιόπουλος, born January 1, 1956, in Athens) is a Greek engineer and university professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests are in the field of Environmental Engineering.

Early life and education

Nicolas Moussiopoulos studied Mechanical Engineering at the Universität Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT), from 1973 to 1978 and, prior to graduating, had a research stay at the Von Karman Institute of Fluid Mechanics in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium. After completing his doctoral studies in 1982 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe with a focus on transport phenomena, he started lecturing at the Universität Karlsruhe, where he led a research group that developed mathematical model systems to describe air pollutant dispersion and transformation. From 1986 to 1987 he also worked as a lecturer at the Gesamthochschule of Kassel. After the completion of his postdoctoral lecture qualification (“Habilitation”), he was appointed Full Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the  Aristotle University Thessaloniki. Since 1990 he is also the Head of this university's Sustainability Engineering Laboratory, formerly Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering. In addition, since 1996 he is a Honorary Professor at KIT's School of Mechanical Engineering.

Career

In the periods 1997-1999 and 2003–2007, Moussiopoulos chaired Aristotle University's School of Mechanical Engineering. From September 2006 until August 2010 he was the Dean of the University's Faculty of Engineering. From October 2010 until March 2016 he served as the Vice President of the International Hellenic University and Dean of its School of Economics & Business Administration (until 2013). In the periods 2014-2017 and 2019-2021 he was also the Head of the Energy Department, School of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki.

Professor Moussiopoulos has consulted several Greek Ministers, represented Greece in numerous international committees and has a wide research management experience. Since 2002 he is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In the same year he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2012 the Royal Society appointed him Associate Editor of Philosophical Transactions A, the world's longest running scientific journal. In the period 2015-2018 Professor Moussiopoulos was the General Secretary of the Hellenic Chapter of the Club of Rome. From June 2018 until April 2021 he was an elected member of the Scientific Council of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, responsible for Engineering and Technology Sciences. August 2019 he was appointed consultant to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development on waste management issues in Greece. Since October 2021 he is elected Vice President of the Hellenic Solid Waste Management Association, responsible for international relations. He received the Gerhard Hess Award of the German Research Association, the Heinrich Hertz Award (1990) and Aristotle University's Excellence Prize (2008).

The research work of Nicolas Moussiopoulos addresses several issues in the broad field of energy and the environment. In the last 35 years he participated in numerous competitive, mostly EU funded research projects with a total budget of approx. 25 million €. He supervised 43 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers in Greece and five other countries and is the author of more than 900 scientific publications, including approx. 220 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Academy membership

Full member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Engineering Sciences Section, since 2002.

Selected publications

• Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; et al. (2015), "Photocatalytic de-pollution in the Leopold II tunnel in Brussels: NOx abatement results", Building and Environment, vol. 84, pp. 125–133, doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.10.032
• Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; et al. (2014), "Comparing land use regression and dispersion modelling to assess residential exposure to ambient air pollution for epidemiological studies", Environment International, vol. 73, pp. 382–392, doi:10.1016/j.envint.2014.08.011, PMID 25233102
• Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; et al. (2014), "Online coupled regional meteorology chemistry models in Europe: current status and prospects", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 317–398, Bibcode:2014ACP....14..317B, doi:10.5194/acp-14-317-2014
• Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; et al. (2013), "Increased Biomass Burning Due to the Economic Crisis in Greece and Its Adverse Impact on Wintertime Air Quality in Thessaloniki", Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 47, no. 23, pp. 13313–13320, Bibcode:2013EnST...4713313S, doi:10.1021/es403847h, PMID 24187932
• Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; et al. (2010), "Environmental, social and economic information management for the evaluation of sustainability in urban areas: A system of indicators for Thessaloniki, Greece", Cities, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 377–384, doi:10.1016/j.cities.2010.06.001
• Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; et al. (2009), "Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality", Atmospheric Environment, vol. 43, no. 33, pp. 5268–5350, Bibcode:2009AtmEn..43.5268M, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.08.021, hdl:10379/12948
• Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; et al. (2009), "A methodological framework for end-of-life management of electronic products", Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 329–339, doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2009.02.001
• Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; et al. (2009), "Air quality status in Greater Thessaloniki Area and the emission reductions needed for attaining the EU air quality legislation", Science of the Total Environment, vol. 407, no. 4, pp. 1268–1285, Bibcode:2009ScTEn.407.1268M, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.10.034, PMID 19028397