Biography

Professor Dionysiou was born on the Island of Cyprus. He is currently a Herman Schneider Professor of Environmental Engineering and Distinguished Research Professor (STEM). He has served as a UNESCO co-Chair Professor on “Water Access and Sustainability” at the University of Cincinnati. He teaches courses on drinking water quality and treatment, advanced unit operations for water treatment, advanced oxidation technologies, and physical-chemical processes for water quality control. His research interests include treatment of water contaminated by harmful algal blooms with conventional and advanced technologies, advanced technologies for water treatment, advanced oxidation technologies, transition metal-based chemical oxidation, and nanotechnology. Dr. Dionysiou is the author or co-author of over 600 refereed journal publications, 87 conference proceedings, 38 book chapter publications, 34 editorials, and more than 650 presentations. He has edited/co-edited 7 books on water quality, water reuse, ferrates/ferrites, photocatalysis and harmful algal blooms. Dr. Dionysiou’s work received over 62,000 citations with an H factor of 128 (Google Scholar). He is a Highly Cited Researcher (in engineering based on Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, and in Environmental Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering based of Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects by Elsevier, 2016). He has currently numerous national and international collaborations. Dr. Dionysiou has received funding from NSF, US EPA, NASA, DOE, NOAA/CICEET, USGS, USDA, Ohio Sea Grant, USAID, Cyprus Research Foundation, and DuPont. He is currently one of the editors of Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), co-Editor of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2017. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of more than ten other journals. He has previously served as Associate Editor of Water Environment Research (WEF) (2006-2011) and as member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Progress (now renamed as Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy) (AIChE) (2003-2009). Dr. Dionysiou is a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the International Water Association (IWA) and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). He has served as chair-elect, chair,a nd past-chair of the Environmental Chemistry Division of ACS and is a member of many committees of several professional societies (i.e., ACS, AEESP, AWWA, WEF, IWA). Dr. Dionysiou has been featured in several international symposia, professional meetings, and scientific publications, including an interview on “Cleaning up water” published on July 5, 2011 in the Chemistry World magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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