Sofoklis Makridis is an elected Associate Professor (tenured) at the Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Patras in Greece & Visiting Professor of KU Leuven at Belgium - Prof. Pontikes Research Group (Sustainable Metals Processing and Recycling). His Postdoc research has been accomplished on Materials for Hydrogen Storage by having a fellowship from the State Scholarships Foundation while he holds an MBA in spin-offs. He serves as Editor-in-Chief at Challenges (MDPI) and at Verizona Publishing Ltd, London. He is involved in the Editorial Board of Materials and SCi (MDPI), Open Chemistry (DeGruyterOpen), of the Scientific Reports of the Nature Publishing Group, and Heliyon, Materials Science and Engineering B of Elsevier. He has more than 65 publications in international journals, international conference proceedings and book chapters. He has more than 10 invited lectures in Research Centers and Universities and 5 invited lectures in conferences overseas in the last 5 years.
Makridis Sofoklis had given lectures more than ten hours per week by covering physics, materials science and technology, hydrogen technologies, energy and innovation. He serves as Editor-in-Chief at Challenges (MDPI) and at Verizona Publishing LtD, London. He is involved in the Editorial Board of Materials (MDPI), Open Chemistry (DeGruyterOpen), of the Journal of the Scientific Reports of the Nature Publishing Group, all covered by ISI Web of Science. He is a Member of the IEEE Magnetics Society and Materials Research Society. Sofoklis has collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California regarding Hydrogen storage and CO2 capture. He has more than 65 publications in international journals, international conference proceedings and book chapters. He has been involved in at least 12 EU/USA funded research programs, in many of which as a principal investigator or a leader. He has more than 10 invited lectures in Research Centres and Universities and 5 invited lectures in conferences overseas in the last 5 years. He chaired more than 5 international Conferences. His curriculum vitae has been cited in Marquis Who’s Who in the World (2010) and selected as one of the leading achievers from around the globe. Since 2011 he is in the Management Committee of three EU Cost actions. He is an expert collaborative partner in Energy-Publishing sector with consultancy in Third Bridge, Uk.