Short bio/research specialty
Ioannis (Yannis) Ieropoulos is the Chair in Environmental Engineering and Head for the Water & Environmental Engineering Group (WEEG) at the University of Southampton. He is an electronics engineer and specialises in self-sustainable systems & robots. He co-founded the Bristol BioEnergy Centre, at BRL, UWE, Bristol, where he worked for 21 years contributing to research, education, and training experience. His work focusses on waste utilisation and energy autonomy and produced the EcoBot family of robots and PEE POWER® powered by microbial fuel cells (MFCs) fed on organic/human waste. He has been an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow and a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grantee, advancing Bioelectrochemical Systems for sanitation in ODA countries. He is Vice-Chair of the EU COST Action, PHOENIX, a network of 300 EU researchers looking at environmental remediation. He has been the PI on the EU FET OPEN “Living Architecture”, now part of the European Innovation Council and on projects focusing on robotics, biodegradable & functional materials, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, EU FP-6, FP-7 and H2020 programmes. He is Editor-in-Chief for Sustainable Energy Technologies & Assessments. His research income in the past 11 years is >£7M, his H-index is 58 and he has published >150 peer reviewed journal articles.
Professional positions held
2021-present Chair in Environmental Engineering, Head of Water & Env Eng Group (WEEG)
2014- 2021 Professor & Director, Bristol BioEnergy Centre (BBiC), BRL, UWE, Bristol
2013-2014 Associate Professor & Theme Leader, BRL, UWE, Bristol
2010-2013 Senior Research Fellow, EPSRC Fellow, BRL, UWE
2006-2010 Research Fellow, EU FP-6, BRL, UWE, Bristol
2004-2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate, EPSRC, BRL, UWE, Bristol
Academic qualifications
2006 PhD, Computer and Mathematical Studies, BRL, UWE, Bristol, UK
2001 MSc., Communications Systems & Signal Processing, University of Bristol, UK
2000 BEng. (Hons, 2:1), Electrical and Electronic Eng, UWE, Bristol, UK
1998 HND in Electrical Engineering, Frederick Institute of Technology, Nicosia, Cyprus