Nicolas Moussiopoulos

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

Born in Athens 1956, Moussiopoulos studied Mechanical Engineering at the Universität Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT), from 1973 to 1978 and graduated in 1977 from 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 began as a lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe, where he led a research group that developed mathematical model systems to describe the propagation of air pollutants in the atmosphere. 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.^[1] Since 1990 he is also the Head of this University’s 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).^[2] In the period 2014-2017 he was also the Head of the Energy Department, School of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki.^[3]

Moussiopoulos has consulted several Greek Ministers, represented Greece in numerous international committees. 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. Since 2015 Moussiopoulos is the General Secretary of the Hellenic Chapter of the Club of Rome.^[4] In June 2018, he was elected a member of the Scientific Council of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, responsible for engineering and technology sciences.^[5] 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 30 years he participated in numerous competitive, mostly EU funded research projects with a total budget exceeding 20 million €. He supervised 42 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers in Greece and five other countries and is the author of more than 800 scientific publications, including approx. 220 papers in peer-reviewed journals (Google Scholar: >6500 citations, h-index: 41).^[6][7]

Academy membership

Full member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Engineering Sciences Section, since 2002.^[8]

Selected publications

• N. Moussiopoulos et al. (2015), "Photocatalytic de-pollution in the Leopold II tunnel in Brussels: NOx abatement results" (in English), Building and Environment Volume 84: pp. 125-133, doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.10.032 
• N. Moussiopoulos et al. (2014), "Comparing land use regression and dispersion modelling to assess residential exposure to ambient air pollution for epidemiological studies" (in English), Environment International Volume 73: pp. 382-392, doi:10.1016/j.envint.2014.08.011 
• N. Moussiopoulos et al. (2014), "Online coupled regional meteorology chemistry models in Europe: current status and prospects" (in English), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Volume 14 (Issue 1): pp. 317-398, doi:10.5194/acp-14-317-2014 
• N. Moussiopoulos et al. (2013), "Increased Biomass Burning Due to the Economic Crisis in Greece and Its Adverse Impact on Wintertime Air Quality in Thessaloniki" (in English), Environmental Science and Technology Volume 47 (Issue 23): pp. 13313–13320, doi:10.1021/es403847h 
• N. Moussiopoulos et al. (2010), "Environmental, social and economic information management for the evaluation of sustainability in urban areas: A system of indicators for Thessaloniki, Greece" (in English), Cities Volume 27 (Issue 5): pp. 377-384, doi:10.1016/j.cities.2010.06.001 
• N. Moussiopoulos et al. (2009), "Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality" (in English), Atmospheric Environment Volume 43 (Issue 33): pp. 5268–5350, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.08.021 
• N. Moussiopoulos et al. (2009), "A methodological framework for end-of-life management of electronic products" (in English), Resources, Conservation and Recycling Volume 53 (Issue 6): pp. 329-339, doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2009.02.001 
• N. Moussiopoulos et al. (2009), "Air quality status in Greater Thessaloniki Area and the emission reductions needed for attaining the EU air quality legislation" (in English), Science of the Total Environment Volume 407 (Issue 4): pp. 1268-1285, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.10.034 

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