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2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
85
Citations
22643
World Ranking
2722
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Nikolaos S. Thomaidis is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with notable contributions in the subfields of Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Molecular Biology, Food Science, and Analytical Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Analytical Chemistry Methods Development, Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies, SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Testing, and Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities.

Frequent publication venues for Nikolaos S. Thomaidis include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Molecules
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance data can predict hospitalizations and ICU admissions" (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "NORMAN guidance on suspect and non-target screening in environmental monitoring" (2023), published in Environmental Sciences Europe
  • "Development and Application of Liquid Chromatographic Retention Time Indices in HRMS-Based Suspect and Nontarget Screening" (2021), published in Analytical Chemistry
  • "The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry" (2022), published in Environmental Sciences Europe
  • "Patterns of pharmaceuticals use during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Athens, Greece as revealed by wastewater-based epidemiology" (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with Nikolaos S. Thomaidis include:

  • Nikiforos Alygizakis
  • Maria-Christina Nika
  • Jaroslav Slobodník
  • Marios Kostakis
  • Reza Aalizadeh

Best Publications

  • Progress in the biological and chemical treatment technologies for emerging contaminant removal from wastewater: A critical review.

    Mohammad Boshir Ahmed;John L. Zhou;Huu Hao Ngo;Wenshan Guo

  • Non-target screening with high-resolution mass spectrometry: critical review using a collaborative trial on water analysis

    Emma L. Schymanski;Heinz P. Singer;Jaroslav Slobodnik;Ildiko M. Ipolyi

  • Determination of 13 synthetic food colorants in water-soluble foods by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with diode-array detector.

    Katerina S. Minioti;Christina F. Sakellariou;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis

  • 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

  • Targeted and non-targeted liquid chromatography-mass spectrometric workflows for identification of transformation products of emerging pollutants in the aquatic environment

    Anna A. Bletsou;Junho Jeon;Juliane Hollender;Eleni Archontaki

  • Extended Suspect and Non-Target Strategies to Characterize Emerging Polar Organic Contaminants in Raw Wastewater with LC-HRMS/MS

    Pablo Gago-Ferrero;Emma L. Schymanski;Anna A. Bletsou;Reza Aalizadeh

  • Occurrence and spatial distribution of 158 pharmaceuticals, drugs of abuse and related metabolites in offshore seawater.

    Nikiforos A. Alygizakis;Pablo Gago-Ferrero;Viola L. Borova;Alexandra Pavlidou

  • Simultaneous determination of the endocrine disrupting compounds nonylphenol, nonylphenol ethoxylates, triclosan and bisphenol A in wastewater and sewage sludge by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

    Georgia Gatidou;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis;Athanasios S. Stasinakis;Themistokles D. Lekkas

  • Occurrence and fate of endocrine disrupters in Greek sewage treatment plants.

    Athanasios S. Stasinakis;Georgia Gatidou;Georgia Gatidou;Daniel Mamais;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis

  • Multi-residue determination of 115 veterinary drugs and pharmaceutical residues in milk powder, butter, fish tissue and eggs using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

    Marilena E. Dasenaki;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis

  • Measuring biomarkers in wastewater as a new source of epidemiological information: Current state and future perspectives

    Emma Gracia-Lor;Emma Gracia-Lor;Sara Castiglioni;Richard Bade;Frederic Been

  • Fate of selected pharmaceuticals and synthetic endocrine disrupting compounds during wastewater treatment and sludge anaerobic digestion

    Vasilios G. Samaras;Athanasios S. Stasinakis;Daniel Mamais;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis

  • Wide-scope target screening of >2000 emerging contaminants in wastewater samples with UPLC-Q-ToF-HRMS/MS and smart evaluation of its performance through the validation of 195 selected representative analytes

    Pablo Gago-Ferrero;Anna A. Bletsou;Dimitrios E. Damalas;Reza Aalizadeh

  • Determination of bisphenol A in milk by solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

    Niki C. Maragou;Eugenia N. Lampi;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis;Michael A. Koupparis

  • Contribution of primary and secondary treatment on the removal of benzothiazoles, benzotriazoles, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals and perfluorinated compounds in a sewage treatment plant

    Athanasios S. Stasinakis;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis;Olga S. Arvaniti;Olga S. Arvaniti;Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos

  • Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

    Iria González-Mariño;Iria González-Mariño;Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Nikiforos A. Alygizakis;Maria Jesús Andrés-Costa

  • Benzotriazoles and benzothiazoles in human urine from several countries: A perspective on occurrence, biotransformation, and human exposure

    Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos;Lei Wang;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis;Kurunthachalam Kannan

  • The impact of on-site hospital wastewater treatment on the downstream communal wastewater system in terms of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes.

    Gabriela K. Paulus;Luc M. Hornstra;Nikiforos Alygizakis;Jaroslav Slobodnik

  • NORMAN guidance on suspect and non-target screening in environmental monitoring

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  • Is there a risk for the aquatic environment due to the existence of emerging organic contaminants in treated domestic wastewater? Greece as a case-study.

    Vasiliki S. Thomaidi;Athanasios S. Stasinakis;Viola L. Borova;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis

  • Widespread occurrence of bisphenol A diglycidyl ethers, p-hydroxybenzoic acid esters (parabens), benzophenone type-UV filters, triclosan, and triclocarban in human urine from Athens, Greece.

    Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos;Nikolaos S. Thomaidis;Kurunthachalam Kannan

  • Migration of bisphenol A from polycarbonate baby bottles under real use conditions

    Niki C Maragou;Athina Makri;Eugenia N Lampi;Nikolaos S Thomaidis

  • Characterization of lead, cadmium, arsenic and nickel in PM2.5 particles in the Athens atmosphere, Greece

    Nikolaos S. Thomaidis;Evangelos B. Bakeas;Panayotis A. Siskos

Frequent Co-Authors

Athanasios S. Stasinakis
Athanasios S. Stasinakis University of the Aegean
Themistokles D. Lekkas
Themistokles D. Lekkas University of the Aegean
Juliane Hollender
Juliane Hollender Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Daniel Mamais
Daniel Mamais National Technical University of Athens
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Kevin V. Thomas
Kevin V. Thomas University of Queensland
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández Jaume I University
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs University of Antwerp
Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Despo Fatta-Kassinos University of Cyprus
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern University of Bath

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