Charis M. Galanakis
Food, Environment, Recovery & Applications
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Dr. Galanakis is
a visiting Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural
Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology. He is also
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 spin-out company that
targets the industrial production of valuable compounds
from OMW and other agricultural wastes.
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 Prof. Eva Tornberg.
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