Spiros Agathos#


Spiros Agathos
Membership Number:5759
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Affiliated section(s):PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Elected:2021
Main Country of Residence:BELGIUM
ORCID:0000-0001-7245-0594
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Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/spiros-agathos-2694831/



Present and Previous Positions
  • 2023 - present Chair Professor, Harbin Engineering University, Qingdao Base, China
  • 2015 - present Professor Emeritus & Invited Research Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • 2015 - 2019 Inaugural Dean, School of Biological Sciences & Engineering, and Rector (2019), Yachay Tech University, Ecuador
  • 2005 - 2015 Full Professor (“Professeur Ordinaire”), Unit of Bioengineering, Université Catholique de Louvain
  • 1998 - 2010 Head, Unit of Bioengineering, Université Catholique de Louvain
  • 1993 - 2005 Associate Professor then Professor, Unit of Bioengineering, Université Catholique de Louvain
  • 1985 - 1993 (a) Assistant Professor, Dept. Chemical & Biochemical Engineering and (b) Principal Investigator, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • 1982 - 1985 Lecturer then Assistant Professor, Dept. Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Fields of Scholarship
  • Biotechnology for sustainability
  • Biochemical engineering
  • Microbial ecogenomics
  • Microbial and animal cell cultures in bioreactors
  • Bioprocess design, modeling and scale-up
  • Enzyme biocatalysis
  • Applied and environmental microbiology
  • Pollutant biodegradation
  • Bioremediation

Honours and Awards
  • 2023 Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens, Greece
  • 2023 Zhiyuan Master Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • 2021 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), U.S.A.
  • 2021 Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2019 Waksman Outstanding Teaching Award, Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (SIMB), U.S.A.
  • 2019 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), U.S.A.
  • 2018 Invited Lecturer on Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology, 18th International Biotechnology Symposium (IBS2018), Montreal, Canada
  • 2017 Opening Keynote Lecturer, 5th Belgian Symposium on Tissue Engineering (BSTE), Leuven, Belgium
  • 2015 Elected Fellow, International Water Association (IWA)
  • 2015 Special “Professor S.N. Agathos” Honorary Session, 6th European Bioremediation Conference (EBC-VI), Chania, Crete, Greece
  • 2014 Closing Plenary Lecturer, 16th International Biotechnology Symposium (IBS2014), Fortaleza, Brazil
  • 2014 Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), U.S.A.
  • 2012 Inter-University Attraction Pole (IUAP) - Microbial Resource Management (MRM) in Engineered and Natural Ecosystems (“Micro-Manager”)
  • 2006 Elected Fellow, Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, U.S.A.
  • 1987 Career Initiation Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S.A.

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