Dr Stefanakis is Associate Professor at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete in Greece, and Director of the Laboratory of Environmental Engineering and Management. He is the elected President of the International Ecological Engineering Society, and elected Chair of the Specialist Group on Treatment Wetlands and Nature-based Solutions of the International Water Association. He is appointed European Climate Pact Ambassador appointed by the European Commission. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal ‘Circular Economy and Sustainability’.
Dr Stefanakis is Environmental Engineer with MSc and PhD on water and wastewater engineering, specializing on ecological engineering and nature-based solutions. His expertise is in the design of sustainable decentralized water and wastewater management systems, namely constructed wetlands.
He has designed and constructed several such wastewater treatment facilities worldwide, including the flagship constructed wetlands such as the world's largest industrial system for oilfield wastewater management in Oman (175,000 m³/day), the largest system in the world for municipal wastewater treatment in Saudi Arabia (16,000 m³/day), and one of the largest systems for mine drainage treatment in Brazil (>100,000 m³/day).
