Ioannis Ieropoulos

Ioannis (Yannis) Ieropoulos is the Chair in Environmental Engineering and Head of Department for Civil, Maritime & Environmental Engineering at the University of Southampton. He is an electronics engineer and specialises in self-sustainable systems & robots. He co-founded the Bristol BioEnergy Centre, at BRL, UWE, Bristol, where he worked for 20 years contributing to research, teaching, and training experience. His work focusses on waste utilisation and energy autonomy and produced the EcoBot family of robots and PEE POWER® powered by microbial fuel cells (MFCs) fed on organic/human waste. He has been an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow and a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grantee, advancing Bioelectrochemical Systems for sanitation in ODA countries. He is Chair of the EU COST Innovators Grant, PHOENIX, a network of 300 EU researchers looking at environmental remediation. He is currently the PI on the EU EIC PATHFINDER “Microbial Hydroponics” project, and on projects focusing on robotics, biodegradable & functional materials. He is Editor-in-Chief for Sustainable Energy Technologies & Assessments (SETA).