Prof. Dr. Anastasia Zabaniotou
Prof. Dr. Anastasia Zabaniotou
Anastasia Zabaniotou is Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is also teaching at the Master program on Sustainable Use of Resources and Circular Economy at Ecole Centrale Marseille, France. She holds a PhD and Master from Ecole Centrale de Paris, France. She has been working at the European Commission, at the Direction General for R&I, as an officer and she still works as an expert and evaluator. She participated in evaluation panels for various European Universities evaluation. She is chairperson of Biomass-Bioenergy at the International Renewable Energy Network and Conference (WREN/WREC) and member of the Chinese Network on Energy and Environment (BEE-RCN), member of the International Collaboration Committee at Aristotle University and board member of RMEI (Network of Mediterranean Engineering Schools) that has as mission Sustainable Development Goals and Peace in the Mediterranean region.
She is interested in interdisciplinary research and education. Her research focuses on bioresources sustainable use, waste to energy, biofuels, bioeconomy, circular economy, sustainability and resilience, gender equality, involved and coordinated many national and international R&I projects. Her work was awarded for innovation and excellence 14 times. She is author and co-author of 160 papers in international journals and over 250 conference presentations, visited more than 45 countries/Universities worldwide and invited at many international conferences as keynote speaker, organized several conferences, workshops, and events. In 2018, she was invited by the WORLD ENERGY FORUM as Keynote speaker, at the International Inter Mongolia Energy Conference 2018, China, awarded for pioneering research on Bioenergy by the WREC (World Renewable Energy Conference, London), and also awarded by Aristotle University for her International collaboration.
She participated as a faculty member in the Winter School 2020 in Yangon, Myanmar. She believes that creative and transformative learning deserves a bigger role in education for an awareness that is interrelated with technological achievements and innovations. A long-lasting change in any social or environmental system can be brought by understanding the connection between our consciousness, thoughts and actions, and their impact on the socio-ecological systems. Thus, she is interested in teaching that brings an understanding of the relationships between awareness and actions, in establishing a value-based education through which young scientists could participate to bring sustainable solutions and desired results for peace and wellbeing of the entire world.
