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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
16543
World Ranking
1976
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Gerasimos Lyberatos is affiliated with the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Engineering, with a significant portion of their published work concentrated in these fields.

The scientist's research addresses a range of subfields including:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Building and Construction
  • Molecular Biology

The topics most frequently covered in their work include:

  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques

Gerasimos Lyberatos has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Ιωάννα Ντάϊκου
  • Αsimina Tremouli
  • Γεωργία Αντωνοπούλου
  • Κωνσταντίνα Παπαδοπούλου
  • Γεράσιμος Κανέλλος

Their frequent publication venues encompass:

  • Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology
  • Waste and Biomass Valorization
  • Sustainability
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Gerasimos Lyberatos include:

  • "Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers", 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Food Waste Valorization Based on Anaerobic Digestion", 2020, Waste and Biomass Valorization
  • "MiDAS 5: Global diversity of bacteria and archaea in anaerobic digesters", 2024, Nature Communications
  • "An Integrated Thermal and Hydrometallurgical Process for the Recovery of Silicon and Silver from End-of-Life Crystalline Si Photovoltaic Panels", 2022, Waste and Biomass Valorization
  • "On the Optimization of Fermentation Conditions for Enhanced Bioethanol Yields from Starchy Biowaste via Yeast Co-Cultures", 2021, Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

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  • Review of feedstock pretreatment strategies for improved anaerobic digestion: From lab-scale research to full-scale application.

    Hélène Carrere;Georgia Antonopoulou;Rim Affes;Fabiana Passos

  • Biofuels generation from sweet sorghum: fermentative hydrogen production and anaerobic digestion of the remaining biomass.

    Georgia Antonopoulou;Hariklia N. Gavala;Ioannis V. Skiadas;K. Angelopoulos

  • Effect of temperature and ph on the effective maximum specific growth rate of nitrifying bacteria

    P. Antoniou;J. Hamilton;B. Koopman;R. Jain

  • Biohydrogen Production from Biomass and Wastes via Dark Fermentation: A Review

    I. Ntaikou;G. Antonopoulou;G. Lyberatos

  • Evolution of Water Lifting Devices (Pumps) over the Centuries Worldwide

    Stavros I. Yannopoulos;Gerasimos Lyberatos;Nicolaos Theodossiou;Wang Li

  • Biological treatment of wastewaters from a dye manufacturing company using a trickling filter.

    M. Kornaros;G. Lyberatos

  • Fate and mobility of pharmaceuticals in solid matrices.

    Panagiota Drillia;Katerina Stamatelatou;Gerasimos Lyberatos

  • Using cheese whey for hydrogen and methane generation in a two-stage continuous process with alternative pH controlling approaches

    Nikolaos Venetsaneas;Georgia Antonopoulou;Katerina Stamatelatou;Michael Kornaros

  • Removal of phenolics in olive mill wastewaters using the white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus

    M.S Fountoulakis;S.N Dokianakis;M.E Kornaros;G.G Aggelis

  • On the occasional biodegradation of pharmaceuticals in the activated sludge process: the example of the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole.

    P. Drillia;S.N. Dokianakis;M.S. Fountoulakis;M. Kornaros

  • Stable performance of anaerobic digestion in the presence of a high concentration of propionic acid

    Pratap C. Pullammanappallil;David P. Chynoweth;Gerasimos Lyberatos;Spyros A. Svoronos

  • Biohydrogen and methane production from cheese whey in a two-stage anaerobic process

    Georgia Antonopoulou;Katerina Stamatelatou;Nikolaos Venetsaneas;Michael Kornaros

  • Partial nitrification/denitrification can be attributed to the slow response of nitrite oxidizing bacteria to periodic anoxic disturbances.

    M. Kornaros;S. N. Dokianakis;G. Lyberatos

  • Hydrogen production from sugars and sweet sorghum biomass using Ruminococcus albus

    I Ntaikou;Hariklia N. Gavala;M Kornaros;G Lyberatos

  • Ozonation of azo dyes

    S. Liakou;S. Pavlou;G. Lyberatos

  • Hydrogen and methane production through two-stage mesophilic anaerobic digestion of olive pulp

    Eleni C. Koutrouli;Haralabos Kalfas;Hariklia N. Gavala;Hariklia N. Gavala;Ioannis V. Skiadas;Ioannis V. Skiadas

  • Treatment of Dairy Wastewater Using an Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor

    H.N. Gavala;H. Kopsinis;I.V. Skiadas;K. Stamatelatou

  • Removal of Mn and simultaneous removal of NH3, Fe and Mn from potable water using a trickling filter

    A Gouzinis;N Kosmidis;D.V Vayenas;G Lyberatos

  • Exploitation of olive oil mill wastewater for combined biohydrogen and biopolymers production

    I. Ntaikou;C. Kourmentza;E.C. Koutrouli;K. Stamatelatou

  • MODELLING OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTION - A REVIEW

    I. V. Skiadas;G. Lyberatos

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Kornaros
Michael Kornaros University of Patras
Hariklia N. Gavala
Hariklia N. Gavala Technical University of Denmark
Ioannis V. Skiadas
Ioannis V. Skiadas Technical University of Denmark
Irini Angelidaki
Irini Angelidaki Technical University of Denmark
Damien J. Batstone
Damien J. Batstone University of Queensland
Costas Kravaris
Costas Kravaris Texas A&M University
Eric Trably
Eric Trably INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Birgitte Kiær Ahring
Birgitte Kiær Ahring Washington State University
Jens Ejbye Schmidt
Jens Ejbye Schmidt University of Southern Denmark

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