Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus
"Confronting micropollutants and antimicrobial resistance: Transforming wastewater treatment plants into reclaimed water facilities for climate resilience"
Event: 25th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry (EMEC25). Chania, Greece.
Partner Organisation: Association of Chemistry and the Environment (ACE)
Date: 23-25 November 2025
Despo Fatta-Kassinos’ research expertise focuses on wastewater treatment and reuse, advanced chemical oxidation processes, contaminants of emerging concern, and antimicrobial resistance in the environment and wastewater technical systems. Despo is a Highly Cited Researcher since 2018 (Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics). She was the Chair of the Scientific and Technological Advisory Board of the European JPI ‘Water Challenges for a Changing World’ for the years 2015-2019, the Chair of the COST Action NEREUS ES1403, and the Coordinator of the H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015/675530/ANSWER project, focusing on challenges of wastewater treatment and reuse. Despo is recipient of various awards, and in 2022 she received the Noack Laboratorien Outstanding Science Career Award by The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).
Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Nireas International Water Research Center at the University of Cyprus
“On the fate of antimicrobial resistance during urban wastewater treatment and reuse”
Event: 3rd International Conference on Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (ICRAPHE 3). Hangzhou, China.
Partner Organisation: Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA)
Date: 14-16 October 2022
Despo Fatta-Kassinos’ research expertise focuses on wastewater treatment and reuse, advanced chemical oxidation processes, contaminants of emerging concern, and antimicrobial resistance in the environment and wastewater technical systems. Despo is a Highly Cited Researcher since 2018 (Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics). She was the Chair of the Scientific and Technological Advisory Board of the European JPI ‘Water Challenges for a Changing World’ for the years 2015-2019, the Chair of the COST Action NEREUS ES1403, and the Coordinator of the H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015/675530/ANSWER project, focusing on challenges of wastewater treatment and reuse. Despo is recipient of various awards, and in 2022 she received the Noack Laboratorien Outstanding Science Career Award by The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).
