Dr. Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou is Associate Professor at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete and Director of the Laboratory of “Environmental Catalysis”. She received her diploma in Chemical Engineering in 2001 and her M.Sc and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2006 from the University of Patras. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras and in the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, USA. Her research activities are focused in the fields of Heterogeneous Catalysis and, especially, in materials synthesis and characterization, catalyst development and evaluation, and investigation of reaction kinetics and mechanisms, with emphasis given in environmental and energy-related applications. She is the co-author of 64 articles in international refereed journals and 2 book chapters. Her published work has > 5700 citations (source Scopus) with an h-index of 37 and has been presented in 54 international and 38 national conferences. She is the coordinator of 2 research projects funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology and the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I.) and has participated in 11 research projects. She was/is the supervisor of three Ph.D thesis and two postdoctoral researcher, and has supervised 7 master theses and 9 undergraduate Diploma the