Nikolaos Paranychianakis

• Office: Κ2.111
• Tel.: +30 28210 37823 FAX: +30 28210 37846
• Email: niko.paranychianakis<at>enveng.tuc.gr
   
• Office Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 11:00 - 13:00

• 2001: PhD in Exploitation of Natural Resources and Agricultural Engineering, Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens
• 1994: Diploma in  Exploitation of Natural Resources and Agricultural Engineering, Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens

Conducting research on the following:

• Wastewater Management and Water Resources.
• Physical Wastewater Treatment Systems.
• Biogeochemical Cycles of Carbon and Nitrogen

• RESCHEDULE 07/2021-06/2024. Resilient to Climate Change Extremes Mediterranean Agricultural Systems: Leveraging the Power of Soil Health and Associated Microbiota. General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Greece. Total Budget 1,890,000 €. TUC Funding 250,000 € (Coordinator).
• BIOME 07/2020-02/2023. Application of emerging biotechnological methods (microbiome engineering) in vegetable crops. General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Greece. Total Budget 450,000 €. TUC Funding 140,000 €.
• Investigation of the presence and activity of bacteria involved in Anaerobic Ammonia Oxidation (Anammox) in Terrestial Ecosystems (2011-2012).Research Committee TUC. Budget: 6.000 €.

• Angelakis, A.N., Valipour, M., Ahmed, A.T., Tzanakakis, V., Paranychianakis, N.V., Krasilnikoff, J., Drusiani, R., Mays, L., Gohary, F.E., Koutsoyiannis, D., Khan, S., Del Giacco, L.G., 2021. Water conflicts: From Ancient to Modern Times and in the Future., Sustainability 13 (8), 4237.
• Paranychianakis, N.V., Giannakis, G.V., Moraetis, D., Tzanakakis, V.A., Nikolaidis, N.P., 2021. Crop Litter Has a Strong Effect on Soil Organic Matter Sequestration in Semi-Arid Environments. Sustainability, 13(23), 13278.
• Tzanakakis, V.A., Angelakis, A.N., Paranychianakis, N.V. Dialynas, Y.G., Tchobanoglous, G., 2020. Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the Island of Crete, Greece. Water, 12, (6), 1538.
• Tsiknia, M.; Fodelianakis, S.; Nikolaidis, N. P.; Paranychianakis, N. V., Neutral processes and high inter-annual turnover shape the assembly of soil bacterial communities in a Mediterranean watershed. bioRxiv 2019, 542076.
• Tzanakakis V.E., Apostolakis, A., Nikolaidis, N.P., Paranychianakis, N.V., 2018. Ammonia oxidizing archaea do not respond to ammonium or urea supply in an alkaline soil. Applied Soil Ecology 132, 194-198.
• Apostolakis, A., Panakoulia, S., Nikolaidis N.P., Paranychianakis, N.V., 2017. Shifts in soil structure and soil organic matter in a chronosequence of set-aside soils. Soil and Tillage Research 174, 113-119.
• Tzanakakis, V.E., Paranychianakis, N.V., 2017. Divergent response of ammonia oxidizers to various amino acids. Applied Soil Ecology 114, 45-51.

• [CHE 316] Food technology (6th Semester - ChE - Required)
• [CHE 405] Wastewater Treatment (7th Semester - ChE - Elective)
• [ENVE 451] Agricultural Engineering (7th Semester - EnvE - Elective)

Curriculum EnvEng (Valid for Ac. Year 2023-24)

• [ENVE 451] Agricultural Engineering (7th Semester – Elective)
• [ENVE 434] Decentrilized Wastewater Treatment Systems (8th Semester – Elective)