Title of the speech: The Evolution of End of Life Clothing in the Waste Management Sector, considering Circular Economy
Professor Dr Antonis Zorpas is a chemical engineer who is actively engaged with several universities and research institutes in Europe. He is an Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus, Director of the Lab of Chemical Engineering & Engineering Sustainability, Director of Sustainable Environmental Engineering Postgraduate Master's (MSc) and member of the OUC Senate. He has more than 650 publications (books, contributions to books, papers in journals, and international conferences). His Google h-index is now 60, with more than 12000 citations. He has been recognised since 2019 among the world's top 0.5% in the list of the most influential researchers in the world in the section of Environmental Science and on 0.5% in the section of Chemical Engineering based on bibliometric data from the Stanford University (USA) and Elsevier Report. Hence, the database from Google, Scholar-GPS places him #5th on the Planet in the era of Waste Management and among the 0.5% of the most Influential scientists on the Planet in the Era of Chemical Engineering. In addition, he acts as Editor on behalf of several Scientific Journals such as the Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier, I.F15.1/Q1). His research background is in the area of Strategic Planning Development in the Framework of Circular Economy and Bioeconomy, Waste Management, Life Cycle Assessment, End-of-Waste Criteria, Material Flow Analysis, Food Waste, Fashion Waste, Micro plastics etc. He has participated in more than 50 EU research projects over the last 15 years. For more than 20 years, he was acting as a Consulting Engineer on behalf of several industrial activities and governmental authorities. In 2019, he received an honorary distinction for his long-standing contribution to the environmental issues of Cyprus from the President of the Republic of Cyprus. He has collaborated with the European Commission since 2008 (e.g Strategic Advisor for EURASHE 2016-2029, as Technical Expert on behalf of European Defence Agency since 2022-2024, Member of the Steering Scientific Advisory Committee for Circular – Bio Based Europe – Joint Undertaking from 2025-2028, etc).
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