2023-06-252023-06-25https://tore.tuhh.de/handle/11420/38085Ioannis (Yannis) Ieropoulos is the Chair in Environmental Engineering and Head of Water & Environmental Engineering Group (WEEG) at the University of Southampton. He is an electronics engineer and specialises in self-sustainable systems & robots. He co-founded the Bristol BioEnergy Centre, at BRL, UWE, Bristol, where he worked for 20 years contributing to research, teaching, and training experience. His work focusses on waste utilisation and energy autonomy and produced the EcoBot family of robots and PEE POWER® powered by microbial fuel cells (MFCs) fed on organic/human waste. He has been an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow and a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grantee, advancing Bioelectrochemical Systems for sanitation in ODA countries. He is Vice-Chair of the EU COST Action, PHOENIX, a network of 300 EU researchers looking at environmental remediation. He has been the PI on the EU FET OPEN “Living Architecture”, its follow-on Innovation Action "ALICE", now part of the European Innovation Council and on projects focusing on robotics, biodegradable & functional materials, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, EU FP-6, FP-7 and H2020 programmes. He is Editor-in-Chief for Sustainable Energy Technologies & Assessments (SETA).