Petros Samaras is a Professor of Water Technology and Environmental Protection at the Department of Food Science and Technology of the International Hellenic University. He is Director of the Laboratory of Technologies for Environmental Protection and Utilization of Food Byproducts. He received his bachelor's and doctorate degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Thessaloniki. His research topics mainly include water and wastewater quality, water treatment technology, municipal and industrial wastewater treatment technologies, sludge treatment, and recycling and reuse of water. He has published more than 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals with an h-index of 36 (Scopus, August 2024).