Dr. Paraskevi Lampropoulou is a faculty member of the Section of Earth Materials, Department of Geology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. She received her Ph.D. from the Geology Department at the University of Patras, Greece. She researched the association of the Materials and Metallurgy laboratory of the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras from 2000 to 2006 and Operational and Administrative support to the XRD lab in the Section of Earth Materials, Geology Department, University of Patras from 2006 to 2016. Her research interests include materials characterization, mineralogy/petrography, applied mineralogy/petrography, ceramics, refractories and utilization of by-products.