Prof. Angelos M. Efstathiou
Angelos M. Efstathiou, (Ph.D. Chemical Engineering), Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Cyprus, has the following current research interests:
(i) Environmental Catalysis focused on the development of de-NOx catalytic technologies for stationary and mobile applications using hydrogen as reducing agent (H2-SCR); three-way catalysis.
(ii) Heterogeneous Catalysis towards energy production through conversion of biomass pyrolysis-derived products into a hydrogen-rich gas, conversion of natural gas and biogas into useful chemicals, Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis, low-temperature water-gas shift, steam reforming and dry reforming of CH4.
(iii) In situ catalyst surface and adsorbed phase characterization by applying the Transient Method: isothermal step-gas switching experiments for the characterization of reactivity of adsorbed surface intermediates and catalyst surface structure, temperature-programmed techniques (TPD, TPO, TPR, TPSR), transient 16O/18O isotopic exchange.
(iv) Mechanistic and kinetic studies of heterogeneous gas-solid catalytic reactions using Steady State Isotopic Transient Kinetic Analysis (SSITKA) coupled with online Mass Spectrometry and DRIFTS (operando methodology) together with mathematical and kinetic modelling of the transient responses obtained.
Professor A.M. Efstathiou has over 6500 citations (Scopus) and over 8000 (Google Scholar) across 170 publications in international peer reviewed journals and books (chapters). His h-index is 48 (Scopus) and 52 (Google Scholar). He had and continues to have several long-standing collaborations with industry around the world, including Linde Engineering AG (Germany), Luxfer MEL Chemicals Ltd (UK) and SASOL (South Africa).
He is Editor of Catalysis Communications and Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.
