Dr. Dionysios (“Dion”) Dionysiou is a Professor and the Graduate Studies Director for Environmental Engineering and Sciences. He studied Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) in Greece and Tufts University before receiving his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Dionysiou’s research has received millions of dollars in funding from organizations that include the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the US Geological Survey (USGS), the USAID, the Ohio Sea Grant, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration- Cooperative Institute for

Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (NOAA/CICEET) and DuPont. In 2016 he was named Guest Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology and Adjunct Visiting Professor at Nanjing University in China. In 2015 he was elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society and named Vising Professor at Dalian University of Technology. In 2014, he received the ARCADIS / AEESP Frontier in Research Award as well as the Research Award and Distinguished Engineering Researcher Award from UC’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He has also received numerous other awards from various other organizations and societies as well as excellence in review awards from various scientific journals. Dr. Dionysiou has over 285 peer-reviewed publications and 90 conference proceedings. He edited/co-edited 5 books and published over 20 book chapters. He has presented over 100 invited plenary, keynote, and lecture presentations as well as numerous conference presentations around the world. He is currently one of the editors of Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), Editor of the Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies, and Special Issue Editor for the Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of ten other journals and he is serving as a reviewer for many national and international journals. Dr. Dionysiou is equally dedicated to his teaching and advising, graduating over 30 Ph.D. and M.S. students who have in turn won many awards. He has served as mentor of over 55 visiting professors, post-doctoral associates and visiting graduate students. He teaches courses in Water and Wastewater Treatment; Environmental Aspects of Nanotechnology; and Physical-Chemical Processes for Water Quality Control.

Education

2001	Ph.D	University of Cincinnati
1995	M.S.	Tufts University
​​1991	​​Diploma	​​National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Experience

9/2013 - 8/2017	​UNESCO Co-Chair Professor on “Water Access and Sustainability”	University of Cincinnati
6/2006-8/2019	Director of Graduate Studies, Environmental Engineering and Science	University of Cincinnati
3/2008 - 2/2009	​​Assistant Department Head for Research Excellence	​University of Cincinnati
​9/2008 - Present	​Professor	​University of Cincinnati
​9/2005 - 8/2008	​​Associate Professor	​​University of Cincinnati
9/2000 - 8/2005	​Assistant Professor	​University of Cincinnati
9/1995 - 8/2000	​Graduate Research Assistant	​University of Cincinnati
9/1994 - 6/1995	​Research Engineer	​​W. R. Grace, Massachusetts
​8/1992 - 8/1994	​Graduate Research Assistant	​Tufts University
9/1990 - 10/1991	​Research Assistant	​N.T.U.A., Greece
​7/1984 - 9/1986	​​Military Service	​Cyprus Army