Georgia Antonopoulou

The University of Patras is inviting expressions of interest for a salaried doctoral candidate position in the Department of Sustainable Agriculture. The PhD project focuses on the utilization of winery waste for the production of energy and useful bio-products . Situated within the fields of circular economy and sustainable management of agro-industrial waste, the research will investigate integrated processes that recover energy and generate value-added products from by-products and waste produced by winemaking activities. The project addresses waste valorization, resource recovery, environmental biotechnology, and sustainable agricultural systems. The research will be conducted collaboratively by the Environmental Systems Laboratory of the Department of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Patras and the Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology of FORTH/ICE-HT. This collaboration offers an interdisciplinary research environment connecting sustainable agriculture, environmental systems, biotechnology, and the development of useful products from industrial waste streams. Georgia Antonopoulou, Associate Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Patras, is the listed contact for the doctoral opportunity.