Prof. George Marnellos Dr. Marnellos graduated the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1995 and he obtained his Ph.D. in 1999 from the AUTH, and a Master degree in Business Administration from the Macedonia University in 1998. Since 2003, he is appointing an academic position (today as an Associate Prof.) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia (UoWM), and he is also an affiliated faculty member in the Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute (CPERI) at the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH).
In June 2015, he was appointed as Head of the newly founded Department of Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia. He is the co-author of 65 papers in international scientific journals, 20 in international conference proceedings, 72 in national conference proceedings and 2 book chapters, concerning solid state electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis and biomass-to-energy science and engineering. In 2005, he established and currently leading the research group of Sustainable Technologies on Alternative & Renewable FUELS. STAR FUELS’ mission is to conduct high-level fundamental and applied research in the fields of hydrogen technologies (production, recovery and fuel cells), air pollution control (NOX, VOCs, etc) and biomass to energy conversion technologies. Prof. Marnellos published work has been worldwide acknowledged with more than 800 citations. In 2010, he obtained the Fulbright research scholarship to cooperate with MIT (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) in the research field of fuel cells. Recently (November 2015), he was awarded by UoWM a prize for Innovative Research in 2012-2014.