Dr. Maria K. Koukou is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Development, Agri-food and Management of Natural Resources of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in the field of analysis and design of processes and industrial installations.

She graduated from Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras in 1991 and she awarded with a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in 1997 from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in the field of installations analysis and design. Her research interests focus on the analysis and design of installations and processes with an emphasis on optimization of their operation and energy saving. In recent years she has been working with issues related with Renewable Energy Sources (RES Solar and Geothermal) installations in combination with thermal energy storage technologies to cover heating, cooling and domestic hot water needs in buildings and other facilities. Since 1992, she has participated in more than twenty five European and Greek research projects in most of which she had a leading research role and in subjects as analysis and design of devices and processes, energy saving, quality assurance, etc.

Dr. Koukou has published more than 100 scientific publications in international journals and conferences, and she has made more than twenty announcements in Greek conferences and workshops. She is also co-inventor of one European patent (granted), two books on Renewable Energy Sources and 2 chapters in books related to installations design. She has taught courses in two Postgraduate Programmes (MSc level) and she has been member of scientific and organization committees in international conferences and workshops. She is also a member of ASHRAE, the Technical Chamber of Greece and other professional and scientific bodies.

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