Nicolas Kalogerakis is Professor Emeritus of Biochemical Engineering at the TU-Crete (Greece), where he has served as Vice-President of the University Council and twice as Department Head. Prior to that, he was a Professor at SUNY-Buffalo (USA) and at the University of Calgary (Canada). He holds a Dipl. Chemical Eng from the National Technical University of Athens, an MEng from McGill University, and a PhD from the University of Toronto. He also holds a Doctor Honoris Causa awarded by TU-Iasi (2022). His areas of expertise include environmental biotechnology focusing on bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies for the restoration of contaminated sites; protection of the marine environment from oil spills and plastics/microplastics; nanobubbles-based oxygenation systems; and agricultural wastewater treatment. Currently, his group is participating in three EU-funded projects. His publication record includes six patents, one book, 257 articles and 12 Editorials in refereed journals. He has been an invited speaker at several conferences and academic institutions worldwide. He has over 21750 citations and an H-index of 82 (Google Scholar, Dec 2025). He has served as a member of the EC Environment Committee (2007-2011), as Sherpa at the EC High Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies (2013-2015), and he is the recipient of the TU-Crete Research Excellence award (2017). He is the Editor-in-Chief of MDPI’s Microplastics and Associate Editor of Elsevier’s New Biotechnology