Dr Dimitris Malamis
Professor
Howell 245a
- Email: dimitris.malamis@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267359
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences
Research area(s)
- Advancing smart biorefineries for sustainable waste/wastewater valorization
- Circularity and sustainability assessment for integrated waste/wastewater systems
- CO2 valorization and decarbonization strategies in waste and wastewater management for sustainable resource recovery
- Waste/wastewater resilience and decision support systems for sustainable waste management
Research Interests
- Smart Biorefineries: Assessing bioconversion techniques to valorize waste and wastewater streams into sustainable fuels, materials, and chemicals.
- Circular Bioeconomy: Integrating circular economy principles, particularly resource recovery, decarbonization, and environmental sustainability in waste /wastewater management.
- Decarbonization of Waste and Wastewater Systems: Exploring innovative methods for capturing and reusing CO2 in waste and wastewater management systems.
- Waste/wastewater resilience: Developing Decision Support Systems to Enhance the Selection, Testing, and Optimization of Waste/wastewater Management Technologies for Informed Decision Making at Operational and Strategic Levels
Research grants and projects
Project details
- HORIZON MSCA SE Programme PORTAL: Adaptive strategies for enhancing threat-agnostic resilience of port ecosystems (2025–2029).
- NERC DLA TREES Programme Decision Support Tool for Building Climate-Resilient Food-Water-Energy-Ecosystem Nexus under Uncertainty) (2025–2029).
- CRONUS: Capture and Reuse Of biogenic gases for Negative-emission – sustainable biofUelS, Horizon Europe, 2022-2026. Coordinator, Total Budget: 4.390.894,50€
- LIFE DIMITRA: Valorising anaerobic digestates into bio-fertilisers for climate friendly agriculture, 2023-2028. Coordinator, Total Budget: 2.258.346,70€
- FuelGae: Sustainable On-site and Innovative Technologies for Advanced Transport BioFuels from MicroalGae, Horizon Europe, 2022-2025.
- LIFE-IP CYzero WASTE: Intelligent monitoring and efficient waste reduction in Cyprus Island, LIFE20 IPE/CY/000011, LIFE, 2021-2029.
- WalNUT: Closing waste water cycles for nutrient recovery, Horizon 2020: Rural Renaissance (RUR-2018-2020), 2021-2026.
- NEWFEED: Turn food industry by-products into secondary feedstuffs via circular-economy schemes, PRIMA foundation, HORIZON 2020, 2021-2025.
- LIFE CO2toCH4: Demonstration of a mobile unit for hybrid energy storage based on CO2 capture and renewable energy Sources, LIFE20 CCM/GR/001642, 2021-2025.
- LIFE PHARMA-DETOX: Demonstration of an innovative method for the detoxification of pharmaceutical wastewater from pharmaceutical facilities, LIFE20 ENV/CY/000615, 2021-2025
- WATER-MINING: Mining water & resources from desalination brines, urban & industrial wastewater streams, HORIZON 2020, 2020-2024.
- WaystUp!: Value chains for disruptive transformation of urban biowaste into biobased products in the city context, HORIZON 2020, 2019-2023
- LIFE CIRCforBIO: A circular economy system for multi-source biomass conversion to added value products, LIFE18 CCM/GR/001180, 2019-2023.
- LIFE BRINE-MINING: Demonstration of an advanced technique for eliminating coal mine wastewater (brines) combined with resource recovery, LIFE18 ENV/GR/000019, 2019-2023.
- LIFE ALGAECAN: Adding sustainability to the fruit and vegetable processing industry through solar-powered algal wastewater treatment, LIFE16 ENV/ES/000180, 2017-2020.
- NoAW: No Agro-Waste: Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets, HORIZON 2020, 2016-2021.
- LIFE URBANPROOF: Climate Proofing Urban Municipalities, LIFE15/CY/000086, 2016-2020.
- LIFE PAYT: Tool to Reduce waste in South Europe, LIFE15/PT/000609, 2016-2020.
- LIFE LEACHLESS: Low energy treatment technology for leachate valorization, LIFE15 ENV/ES/000530, 2016-2021
- LIFE ADAPT2CLIMA: Adaptation to Climate change Impacts on the Mediterranean islands' Agriculture, LIFE14 CCA/GR/000928, 2015-2020.
- LIFE PAVEtheWAySTE: Demonstrating resource efficiency through innovative, integrated waste recycling schemes for remote areas, LIFE14 ENV/GR/000722, 2015-2021
- LIFE FOODPRINT: Development of an integrated strategy for reducing the carbon footprint in the food industry sector, LIFE13 ENV/GR/000958, 2014-2017.