The National Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) is a legal, non-profit entity organized under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Greek Ministry of Development. CERTH was founded in March 2000. CPERI is the main institute of CERTH that will contribute to the project, while additional contributions could be given by HIT and INA as needed. Since its conception in 1985, CPERI has undertaken extensive research and development of novel energy and environmental technologies for dealing with waste and wastewater treatment, reuse and recycling of solid material, removal of toxicants from industrial processes and the environment, production of “clean” transport fuel (e.g. hydrogen and biofuel), as well as on modelling environmental and technological systems for performance optimisation (e.g. simulation of aerosol and particulate processes with discrete particle computer models and multivariate population dynamics).
Professor Costas Kiparissides, is Director of the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute of CERTH. He has over 25 years of experience in advanced chemical modelling, structure-function relationships and drug delivery mechanisms and he has long-standing experience in research management. He is a member of several scientific organizations and has participated in many National & EU Research Committees and Programmes (including ex-member of the Board of Governors of the EC’s Joint Research Centre). Technically he will be involved in WP4.1 (toolbox design) and WP4.2 (development).
Professor Anastasios Karabelas is Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division and Deputy Director of the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute of CERTH. Prof. Karabelas has over 30 years experience in research and education. His has an extensive research track record in the fields of process equipment design, multi-phase flow and colloidal systems, with applications in the exploitation of alternative energy sources (geothermal energy, lignite and biomass pyrolysis, domestic refuse, solar cells). He is a member of several scientific organisations and has participated in EU research committees and programmes (including ex-member of the Board of Governors of the EC’s Joint Research Centre). Technically he will be primarily involved in WP 3.1 (Transport), WP 3.3 (agricultural land use) and WP3.6 (waste).
CERTH leads WP3.3 (Agricultural Land Use) and contributes data on life cycle analysis and alternative management strategies to WP3.6 (Waste), alternative transport scenarios to WP3.1 (transport) and data/model fusion techniques for integrating Earth observation systems in WP 2.1 (environmental monitoring). Furthermore, CERTH contributes to the design of the INTARESE toolbox, to the development of the system architecture and software implementation and to its application and testing in case studies, as well as to Internal training (WP5.2).
