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Despo Fatta-Kassinos

Despo Fatta-Kassinos

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Environmental Sciences
Cyprus
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
78
Citations
28072
World Ranking
1054
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Cyprus Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Cyprus Leader Award

Overview

Despo Fatta-Kassinos is affiliated with the University of Cyprus in Cyprus and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science, with a primary focus on pollution and its multifaceted impacts. Their work spans several related subfields, including Pollution, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Infectious Diseases, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research covers a range of key topics such as Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Biosensors and Analytical Detection, Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, Water Treatment and Disinfection, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, as well as Analytical chemistry methods development.

Despo Fatta-Kassinos has frequently published in several notable venues, including:

  • Journal of environmental chemical engineering
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Water Research
  • Environment International

Their recent scholarly articles demonstrate a broad scientific engagement with environmental contamination and public health concerns. Some recent papers include:

  • "Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment" (2020), published in Environment International
  • "MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "Sewage analysis as a tool for the COVID-19 pandemic response and management: the urgent need for optimised protocols for SARS-CoV-2 detection and quantification" (2020), published in Journal of environmental chemical engineering
  • "Adsorption and removal of seven antibiotic compounds present in water with the use of biochar derived from the pyrolysis of organic waste feedstocks" (2021), also in Journal of environmental chemical engineering

Despo Fatta-Kassinos collaborates frequently with several researchers in related fields. Some of the most frequent co-authors are:

  • Costas Michael
  • Popi Karaolia
  • Νikolaos S. Τhomaidis
  • Célia M. Manaia
  • Anastasis Christou

Best Publications

  • Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes spread into the environment: a review.

    L. Rizzo;C.M. Manaia;C. Merlin;T. Schwartz

  • Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework

    Thomas U. Berendonk;Célia M. Manaia;Christophe Merlin;Despo Fatta-Kassinos

  • Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for the release of antibiotics in the environment: a review

    I. Michael;L. Rizzo;C.S. McArdell;C.M. Manaia

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

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  • Pharmaceutical residues in environmental waters and wastewater: current state of knowledge and future research

    Despo Fatta-Kassinos;Sureyya Meric;Anastasia Nikolaou

  • Consolidated vs new advanced treatment methods for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern from urban wastewater.

    Luigi Rizzo;Sixto Malato;Demet Antakyali;Vasiliki G. Beretsou

  • The potential implications of reclaimed wastewater reuse for irrigation on the agricultural environment: The knowns and unknowns of the fate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria and resistance genes - A review.

    Anastasis Christou;Ana Agüera;Josep Maria Bayona;Eddie Cytryn

  • Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment

    Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz;Ivone Vaz-Moreira;Saulo Varela Della Giustina;Marta Llorca

  • Kinetic and mechanism investigation on the photochemical degradation of atrazine with activated H2O2, S2O82− and HSO5−

    Javed Ali Khan;Javed Ali Khan;Xuexiang He;Noor S. Shah;Noor S. Shah;Hasan M. Khan

  • Antibiotic resistance in European wastewater treatment plants mirrors the pattern of clinical antibiotic resistance prevalence

    Katariina M. M. Pärnänen;Carlos Narciso-da-Rocha;David Kneis;Thomas U. Berendonk

  • Dissolved effluent organic matter: Characteristics and potential implications in wastewater treatment and reuse applications.

    I. Michael-Kordatou;C. Michael;X. Duan;X. He;X. He

  • The risks associated with wastewater reuse and xenobiotics in the agroecological environment

    D. Fatta-Kassinos;I.K. Kalavrouziotis;P.H. Koukoulakis;M.I. Vasquez

  • Transformation products of pharmaceuticals in surface waters and wastewater formed during photolysis and advanced oxidation processes - degradation, elucidation of byproducts and assessment of their biological potency.

    Despo Fatta-Kassinos;Marlen Vasquez;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Performance of secondary wastewater treatment methods for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern implicated in crop uptake and antibiotic resistance spread: A review

    Pawel Krzeminski;Maria Concetta Tomei;Popi Karaolia;Alette Langenhoff

  • Spatial differences and temporal changes in illicit drug use in Europe quantified by wastewater analysis.

    Christoph Ort;Alexander L. N. van Nuijs;Jean-Daniel Berset;Lubertus Bijlsma

  • Removal of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their associated genes by graphene-based TiO 2 composite photocatalysts under solar radiation in urban wastewaters

    Popi Karaolia;Irene Michael-Kordatou;Evroula Hapeshi;Catherine Drosou

  • Long-term wastewater irrigation of vegetables in real agricultural systems: Concentration of pharmaceuticals in soil, uptake and bioaccumulation in tomato fruits and human health risk assessment

    Anastasis Christou;Popi Karaolia;Evroula Hapeshi;Costas Michael

  • Antibiotic resistance genes in treated wastewater and in the receiving water bodies: A pan-European survey of urban settings.

    Damiano Cacace;Despo Fatta-Kassinos;Celia M. Manaia;Eddie Cytryn

  • Environmental side effects of pharmaceutical cocktails: what we know and what we should know.

    M. I. Vasquez;A. Lambrianides;Mandy Schneider;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Continuous ozonation of urban wastewater: Removal of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli and antibiotic resistance genes and phytotoxicity.

    I. C. Iakovides;I. Michael-Kordatou;Nuno F. F. Moreira;Ana R. Ribeiro

  • Treatment of winery wastewater by physicochemical, biological and advanced processes: A review

    L.A. Ioannou;G. Li Puma;D. Fatta-Kassinos

  • Degradation kinetics and mechanism of β-lactam antibiotics by the activation of H2O2 and Na2S2O8 under UV-254nm irradiation.

    Xuexiang He;Xuexiang He;Stephen P. Mezyk;Irene Michael;Despo Fatta-Kassinos

Frequent Co-Authors

Dionysios D. Dionysiou
Dionysios D. Dionysiou University of Cincinnati
Célia M. Manaia
Célia M. Manaia Catholic University of Portugal
Dionissios Mantzavinos
Dionissios Mantzavinos University of Patras
Thomas Schwartz
Thomas Schwartz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Zacharias Frontistis
Zacharias Frontistis University of Western Macedonia
Klaus Kümmerer
Klaus Kümmerer Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Mira Petrovic
Mira Petrovic Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Luigi Rizzo
Luigi Rizzo University of Salerno
Nikolaos S. Thomaidis
Nikolaos S. Thomaidis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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