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 |
| Homepage(s): | https://uclouvain.be/en/directories/spiros.agathos |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7245-0594 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 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
- Biochemical engineering
- Applied and environmental microbiology
- Biotechnology for sustainability
- Microbial and animal cell cultures in bioreactors
- Enzyme biocatalysis
- Pollutant biodegradation
- Microbial ecogenomics
- Bioprocess design, modeling and scale-up
- Bioremediation
Honours and Awards
- 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, 2017
- 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”) [Prestigious 5-year highly competitive grant by Belgian Federal Government upon international peer review]]
- 2006 Elected Fellow, Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, U.S.A.
- 1987 Career Initiation Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S.A. [Prestigious highly competitive grant]
