Demetris-Francis Lekkas is Professor in the School of Environment of the University of the Aegean and Director of the Waste Management Laboratory. His research interests include the analysis and simulation of environmental systems, the development of tools for water quantity and quality management, time series analysis and extreme values estimation, solid waste management, and circular economy. He is the Scientific Coordinator and President (since 2013) of the International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST) and the executive director of the Global NEST Journal. Dr. Lekkas has participated as a coordinator or researcher in more than 30 research projects funded by EU and National funds. His current research activity includes among other projects the coordination of “Aegean AgroWaste Lab – Research Infrastructure for treatment and valorization of by-products and residues of the agro-waste sector to produce alternative products and energy and “Centre of Sustainable and Circular Bioeconomy” (both Financed by the Operational Program “North Aegean 2014-2020”, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
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Waste Management Laboratory
Department of Environment
University of the Aegean
University Hill, 81100, Mytilene
Greece
Tel. +30 22510 36238
email: dekkas (at) aegean.gr
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Recent publications
Composting of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste as an alternative to the uncontrolled disposal: The case of Kalamata Municipality (Greece)
Solid Waste Management
Kalamata’s decentralized waste management and composting scheme is a successful demonstration of the capacity of a municipality to manage its Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) by adopting methodologies that can be supported by small scale mobile equipment. According to the revised legislation, Join...