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Euripides G. Stephanou

Euripides G. Stephanou

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Environmental Sciences
Greece
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
68
Citations
21661
World Ranking
1850
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Euripides G. Stephanou is affiliated with the University of Crete in Greece and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Their research encompasses several interconnected subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Physiology.

The main topics of their work involve Air Quality and Health Impacts, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Birth, Development, and Health, and Water Treatment and Disinfection.

Stephanou has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer Burden in the European Union, 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Atmospheric particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, n-alkanes, hopanes, steranes and trace metals: PM2.5 source identification, individual and cumulative multi-pathway lifetime cancer risk assessment in the urban environment, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • PAHs, PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in the atmosphere of Eastern Mediterranean: Investigation of their occurrence, sources and gas-particle partitioning in relation to air mass transport pathways, 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their alkylated, nitrated and oxygenated derivatives in the atmosphere over the Mediterranean and Middle East seas, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Study of the occurrence and multi-pathway health risk assessment of regulated and unregulated disinfection by-products in drinking and swimming pool waters of Mediterranean cities, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Their frequent coauthors include Minas Iakovides, Katerina Margetaki, Manolis Kogevinas, Marina Vafeiadi, and Theano Roumeliotaki.

Stephanou's publications appear in various venues, most notably:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environment International
  • Toxics
  • Environmental Health Perspectives

Best Publications

  • Organic aerosol and global climate modelling: a review

    M. Kanakidou;J. H. Seinfeld;S. N. Pandis;I. Barnes

  • Development of Land Use Regression Models for PM2.5, PM2.5 Absorbance, PM10 and PMcoarse in 20 European Study Areas; Results of the ESCAPE Project

    Marloes Eeftens;Rob Beelen;Kees de Hoogh;Tom Bellander

  • Global air pollution crossroads over the Mediterranean

    J. Lelieveld;H. Berresheim;S. Borrmann;P. J. Crutzen

  • Development of NO2 and NOx land use regression models for estimating air pollution exposure in 36 study areas in Europe - The ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Gerard Hoek;Danielle Vienneau;Marloes Eeftens

  • Ambient air pollution and low birthweight: a European cohort study (ESCAPE)

    Marie Pedersen;Lise Giorgis-Allemand;Claire Bernard;Inmaculada Aguilera

  • Source apportionment of urban particulate aliphatic and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using multivariate methods

    Ilias G. Kavouras;Petros Koutrakis;Manolis Tsapakis;Evaggelia Lagoudaki

  • Formation of atmospheric particles from organic acids produced by forests

    Ilias G. Kavouras;Nikolaos Mihalopoulos;Euripides G. Stephanou

  • Abiotic stress generates ROS that signal expression of anionic glutamate dehydrogenases to form glutamate for proline synthesis in tobacco and grapevine.

    Damianos S. Skopelitis;Nikolaos V. Paranychianakis;Konstantinos A. Paschalidis;Eleni D. Pliakonis

  • Spatial variation of PM2.5, PM10, PM2.5 absorbance and PMcoarse concentrations between and within 20 European study areas and the relationship with NO2 : results of the ESCAPE project

    Marloes Eeftens;Ming-Yi Tsai;Ming-Yi Tsai;Ming-Yi Tsai;Christophe Ampe;Bernhard Anwander

  • Gas–particle concentrations and distribution of aliphatic hydrocarbons, PAHs, PCBs and PCDD/Fs in the atmosphere of Athens (Greece)

    Manolis Mandalakis;Manolis Tsapakis;Athanasia Tsoga;Euripides G Stephanou

  • Variation of NO2 and NOx concentrations between and within 36 European study areas: Results from the ESCAPE study

    Josef Cyrys;Marloes Eeftens;Joachim Heinrich;Christophe Ampe

  • Organic aerosols in Eastern Mediterranean: components source reconciliation by using molecular markers and atmospheric back trajectories

    Alexandra Gogou;Nikolaos Stratigakis;Maria Kanakidou;Euripides G. Stephanou

  • Marine organic geochemistry of the Eastern Mediterranean: 1. Aliphatic and polyaromatic hydrocarbons in Cretan Sea surficial sediments

    Alexandra Gogou;Ioanna Bouloubassi;Euripides G Stephanou

  • Particle Size Distribution of Airborne Microorganisms and Pathogens during an Intense African Dust Event in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Paraskevi N. Polymenakou;Manolis Mandalakis;Euripides G. Stephanou;Anastasios Tselepides

  • Tropospheric aerosol ionic composition in the Eastern Mediterranean region

    N. Mihalopoulos;E. Stephanou;M. Kanakidou;S. Pilitsidis

  • MEASUREMENT OF PARTICULATE ALIPHATIC AND POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE: SOURCE RECONCILIATION AND EVALUATION OF SAMPLING ARTIFACTS

    Ilias G. Kavouras;Joy Lawrence;Petros Koutrakis;Euripides G. Stephanou

  • Persistent organic chemicals in sewage effluents. 2. Quantitative determinations of nonylphenols and nonylphenol ethoxylates by glass capillary gas chromatography

    Euripides. Stephanou;Walter. Giger

  • Occurrence of gaseous and particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the urban atmosphere: study of sources and ambient temperature effect on the gas/particle concentration and distribution.

    Manolis Tsapakis;Euripides G. Stephanou

  • Air pollution during pregnancy and childhood cognitive and psychomotor development: six European birth cohorts.

    Mònica Guxens;Raquel Garcia-Esteban;Lise Giorgis-Allemand;Joan Forns

  • Development of land use regression models for particle composition in twenty study areas in Europe

    Kees de Hoogh;Meng Wang;Martin Adam;Martin Adam;Chiara Badaloni

  • Spatial variation of PM2.5, PM10, PM2.5 absorbance and PMcoarse concentrations between and within 20 European study areas and the relationship with NO2 - Results of the ESCAPE project

    Marloes Eeftens;Ming-Yi Tsai;Christophe Ampe;Bernhard Anwander

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Bert Brunekreef
Bert Brunekreef Utrecht University
Ming-Yi Tsai
Ming-Yi Tsai University of Washington
Ilias G. Kavouras
Ilias G. Kavouras City University of New York
Manolis Kogevinas
Manolis Kogevinas Pompeu Fabra University
Manolis Tsapakis
Manolis Tsapakis University of Crete
Gerard Hoek
Gerard Hoek Utrecht University
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Rob Beelen
Rob Beelen Utrecht University
Marloes Eeftens
Marloes Eeftens Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

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