Athanasia K. Tolkou

Assistant Professor

Wastewater Treatment

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

Dr. Athanasia Tolkou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) and currently serves as Director of the Division of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the Department (since 2025), and Vice Director of the MSc in Cosmetic Chemistry (since 2025). She is a Chemist, graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), holds a PhD in Chemistry, in the field of wastewater treatment.  

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.

She took a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation to participate in a summer school (Lectures in Physics and Chemistry for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, emphasizing on Graphene and other 2D materials. Dr. Tolkou is President of the Scientific Department of Environment, Health and Safety at Work, of the Union of Greek Chemists and she is recently elected as Associate Member of Chemistry and the Environment Division (VI) of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).