Athanasia K. Tolkou

Assistant Professor

Wastewater Treatment

Department of Chemistry, Democritus University of Thrace, GR-65404 Kavala, Greece

Dr. Athanasia Tolkou is a Chemist, graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), holds a PhD in Chemistry, in the field of wastewater treatment. She is now working at the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Kavala, Greece as Assistant Professor. 

Her research interests include wastewater treatment, municipal, industrial and hazardous wastewater treatment technologies (coagulation/flocculation, adsorption, ozonation, membrane bioreactors), recovery of nutrients (phosphates, nitrates) from wastewater and removal of ions, heavy metals and dyes from water and wastewater.

 She has research experience in the Technical University of Hamburg (Germany), Laboratory of Water Resources and Water Supply and at the University of Insubria, Varese (Italy) Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences. She has also teaching experience in the Department of Chemistry of the University Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland.