Charis M. Galanakis
Food, Environment, Recovery & Applications
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Dr. Galanakis received his PhD degree in 2010 from Environmental Engineering Department, Technical University of Crete (Greece). He was supervised by Prof. Vassilis Gekas, investigating the recovery of valuable organic compounds from olive mill wastewater (OMW) by using physicochemical processes and membrane technology. A major part of the PhD study was also conducted in the Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition, Lund University (Sweden) in collaboration with the Prof. Eva Tornberg. Now, he is working as a research collaborator with Assoc. Prof. Eleftheria Psillakis, intending the utilization of phenols (recovered from OMW) as active substances in cosmetics. At the same time, he is the co-administrator of "Galanakis Laboratories" (Chania, Greece), aiming the analysis of wine, food, beverage and environmental samples as well as the consultancy of related industries and local producers. Finally, he is the co-inventor of the patent (WO/2008/082343) entitled “Olive Waste Recovery” and the co-founder of Phenoliv AB (Lund, Sweden), a spinout company that targets the industrial production of valuable compounds from OMW and other agricultural wastes.
Research Interests
- Utilization of by-products and treatment of wastes in the food/agricultural industry
- Food/environmental engineering
- Food science/agricultural/bioprocess technology
- Membrane technology
- Recovery of valuable compounds, development and preservation of new products
- Applications of recovered compounds in the fields of foods, beverages & cosmetics
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