Dr. Hrissi Kassiani Karapanagioti
Hrissi Kassiani Karapanagioti is a Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry in the University of Patras. She has been studying microplastics since 2004. She has co-edited two books related to plastic and microplastic pollution, co-authored several papers and co-organized several conference sessions with GESAMP, UNEP, IAEA, EGU, NOAA, etc. Her research interests include the degradation of plastics to microplastics and microplastic interaction with microbes and organic pollutants.