Nikolaos Nikolaidis

• Office: Κ1.116
• Tel.: +30 28210 37785 FAX: +30 28210 37846
• Email: ninikolaidis<at>isc.tuc.gr
• Lab URL: www.herslab.tuc.gr
   
• Office Hours: Daily 9:00 - 15:00

• 1987: Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa
• 1984: M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa
• 1982: B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa
• 1980: Diploma, School of Higher Engineering Technology, Athens, Greece

Assessment and remediation of heavy metal contaminated sites
Deterministic and stochastic modeling of water quality problems including:

• Fate and transport of heavy metals in the environment
• Non-point source pollution of nutrients
• Acidic deposition and eutrophication
• Surface water pollution

• LENSES – PRIMA – Learning and action alliances for Nexus Environments in an uncertain future, 1/5/2021 – 30/42024, Principal Investigator: Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Funding: PRIMA 2020 – 246.000 €
• eLTER-PLUS - European long-term ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological systems research infrastructure – PLUS (Ευρωπαική ερευνητική υποδομή για μακροχρόνια έρευνα οικοσυστημάτων, κρίσιμης ζώνης και κοινωνικά-οικονομικά συστήματα PLUS), 1/2/2020 -31/1/2025, Principal Investigator: Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Funding: H2020-INFRAIA 01-2018-2019 - 217731 €
• eLTER-PPP - eLTER Preparatory Phase Project (eLTER Πρόγραμμα Φάσης προετοιμασίας), 1/2/2020 -31/1/2025, Principal Investigator: Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Funding: H2020-INFRAIA 02-2019-2020 - 64500 €
• WaysTUP - Value chains for disruptive transformation of urban biowaste into biobased products in the city context (Αλυσίδες αξίας για την διασπαστική μετάλλαξη των αστικών βιολογικών αποβλήτων σε προϊόντα βιολογικής προέλευσης στο πλαίσιο της πόλης), 1/9/2019 – 31/8/2023, Principal Investigator: Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Funding: H2020-SFS-2018-1 - 425625 €.
• ELVALHALKOR - Support to SYGAPEZ for in-situ remediation, 1/7/2016-30/6/2022, ELVAL 310.000 €

• 2020 Award for Excellence in Research, Technical University of Crete
• 1999 Klewin, Inc. Award for Excellence  in Teaching    
• 1999 LIDA Foundation Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Direction  
• 1st Prize Innovative Technology Award, Connecticut Innovative Inc. 2000  
• Coordinator of LIFE05 Project EnviFriendly which was selected to be BEST-OF-THE-BEST of LIFE for 2010 

• Gamvroudis, C., Z. Dokou, N. P. Nikolaidis, G. P. Karatzas, 2017. Impacts of surface and groundwater variability response to future climate change scenarios in a large Mediterranean watershed, Environmental Earth Sciences, 76:385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-017-6721-7 
• Apostolakis Α., S. Panakoulia, N P. Nikolaidis, N V. Paranychianakis, 2017. Shifts in soil structure and soil organic matter in a chronosequence of set-aside fields,  Soil & Tillage Research, 174, 113-119
• Lilli Μ., E.  Syranidou, A.  Palliou, N. P. Nikolaidis, G.P. Karatzas, N. Kalogerakis, 2017. Assessing the impact of geogenic chromium uptake by carrots (Daucus carota), Environmental Research, 152, pp. 96-101.
• Andrianaki, M., Bernasconi, S.M., Nikolaidis, N.P., 2017. Quantifying the Incipient Development of Soil Structure and Functions Within a Glacial Forefield Chronosequence, In: Quantifying and Managing Soil Functions in Earth’s Critical Zone: Combining Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling, Advances in Agronomy volume 142 pp. 215-239 (edited by Donald L. Sparks and Steven A. Banwart). Elsevier, Amsterdam http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2016.10.013.
• Panakoulia S.K., N.P. Nikolaidis, N.V. Paranychianakis, M. Menon, J. Schiefer, G.J. Lair,
• Skoulikidis N. T., N.P. Nikolaidis, A. Panagopoulos, M. Fischer-Kowalski, S. Zogaris, P. Petridis, V. Pisinaras, D. Efstathiou, T. Petanidou, N. Michalopoulos, M. Mimikou, 2021. The LTER-Greece environmental observatory network: Design and initial achievements, WATER, 2021, 13, 2971. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13212971
• Sullivan, PL; Billings, S; Hirmas, D; Li, L; Zhang, X; Ziegler, S; Murenbeeld, K; Ajami, H; Guthrie, A; Singha, K; Gimenez, D; Duro, A; Moreno, V; Flores, A; Cueva, A; Koop, ; Aronson, EL; Barnard, HR; Keen, RM; Nemes, A; Nikolaidis, NP; Nippert, JB; Richter, D; Robinson, DA; Sadayappan, K; Souza, LFT de; Unruh, M; Wen, H, 2022. Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A key paradigm shift for illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene, Earth Science Reviews, 225 (2022) 103873.  
• Xuan Yu, Zexuan Xu, Daniel Moraetis, Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis, Frank W. Schwatz, Yu Zhang, Lele Shu, Christopher Duffy, Bingjun Liu 2021. Capturing hotspots of fresh submarine groundwater discharge using a couple surface-subsurface model, Journal of Hydrology, 598, 126356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126356
• Josette Garnier, Gilles Billen, Luis Lassaletta Olga Vigiak, Nikolaos P Nikolaidis and Bruna Grizzetti 2021. Ηydromorphology of coastal zone and structure of watershed agro-food system are main determinants of coastal eutrophication, Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (2021) 023005 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc777
• Lilli, M., Efstathiou, D., Moraetis, D., Schuite, J., Nerantzaki, S.D., Nikolaidis, N.P., 2020. Linking geomorphology with hydrologic and geochemical processes at Koiliaris Critical Zone Observatory, Water 2020, 12, 2474; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12092474 .
• Nerantzaki, S., Nikolaidis, NP, 2020. The response of three Mediterranean karstic springs to drought and the impact of climate change, Journal of Hydrology, 591, 125296.
• Maria A. Lilli, Sofia Nerantzaki, Christos Riziotis, Manolis Kotronakis, Dionissis Efstathiou, Dimitris Kontakos, Petros Lymberakis, Manolis Avramakis, Antonis Tsakirakis, Konstantinos Protopapadakis and Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis, 2020. Vision-based decision-making methodology for riparian forest restoration and flood protection using Nature-based solutions, Sustainability, 12, 3305; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083305
• Nerantzaki, S., Nikolaidis, NP., Hristopoulos D., 2020. Estimation of the uncertainty of climate change hydrologic predictions at the Koiliaris Critical Zone Observatory, Science of the Total Environment, 717 (2020) 137131
• Nerantzaki, S., Efstathiou, D., Giannakis, G., Kritsotakis, M., Grillakis, M., Koutroulis, A., Tsanis, I., Nikolaidis, NP., 2019. Climate Change Impact on the Hydrologic Budget of a large Mediterranean island, Hydrological Science Journal, 64 (10) 1190-1203  https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1630741 
• Banwart S.A., N. P. Nikolaidis, Y-G Zhu, C. L. Peacock, and D. L. Sparks, 2019. Soil Functions: Connecting Earth's Critical Zone, Annu. Rev. Earth and Planet. Sci., 47:333-59.  
• . Kram, S.A. Banwart, 2017. Factors Controlling Soil Structure Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration Across Different Climatic and Lithological Conditions, In: Quantifying and Managing Soil Functions in Earth’s Critical Zone: Combining Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling, Advances in Agronomy volume 142 pp. 241-276 (edited by Donald L. Sparks and Steven A. Banwart). Elsevier, Amsterdam http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2016.10.008.
• Giannakis, G.V., N.P. Nikolaidis, J. Valstar, E.C. Rowe, K. Moirogiorgou, E. Kotronakis, N.V. Paranychianakis, S. Rousseva, F.E. Stamati, S.A. Banwart, 2017. Integrated Critical Zone Model (1D-ICZ): A Tool for Dynamic Simulation of Soil Functions and Soil Structure, , In: Quantifying and Managing Soil Functions in Earth’s Critical Zone: Combining Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling, Advances in Agronomy volume 142 pp. 277-314 (edited by Donald L. Sparks and Steven A. Banwart). Elsevier, Amsterdam http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2016.10.009.
• Kotronakis, E., Giannakis, G.V., N.P. Nikolaidis, E.C. Rowe, J. Valstar, N.V. Paranychianakis,  S.A. Banwart, 2017. Modeling the Impact of Carbon Amendments on Soil Ecosystem Functions Using the 1D-ICZ Model, In: Quantifying and Managing Soil Functions in Earth’s Critical Zone: Combining Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling, Advances in Agronomy volume 142 pp. 277-314 (edited by Donald L. Sparks and Steven A. Banwart). Elsevier, Amsterdam http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2016.10.010.
• Orvar, J.,B. Davidsdottir and N.P, Nikolaidis, 2017.  Valuation of Soil Ecosystem Services, In: Quantifying and Managing Soil Functions in Earth’s Critical Zone: Combining Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling, Advances in Agronomy volume 142 pp. XXX-XXX (edited by Donald L. Sparks and Steven A. Banwart). Elsevier, Amsterdam http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2016.10.0XX.
• Nerantzaki Sofia D., Georgios V. Giannakis, Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis, Ierotheos Zacharias, George P. Karatzas, Ioannis A. Sibetheros, 2016. Assessing the impact of climate change on sediment loads in a large Mediterranean watershed, Soil Science Journal, 181 (7), pp306-314.
• Malago, A., D. Efstathiou, F. Bouraoui, N.P. Nikolaidis, M. Franchini, G. Bidoglio and M. Kritsotakis, 2016.  Regional scale hydrologic modeling of a karst-dominant geomorphology: the case study of the island of Crete, Journal of Hydrology, 540, 64-81.

• [ENVE 331] Hydrology (6th Semester - EnvE - Required)
• [ENVE 421] Applications on Environmental Modeling (7th Semester - EnvE - Required)
• [ENVE 433] Hydraulics II (7th Semester - EnvE - Required)
• [ENVE 436] Water Resources Management (8th Semester - EnvE - Elective)

Curriculum EnvEng (Valid for Ac. Year 2022-23)

• [ENVE 331] Hydrology (5th Semester - Required)
• [ENVE 421] Applications on Environmental Modeling (7th Semester - Required)
• [ENVE 433] Hydraulics II (7th Semester - Required)
• [ENVE 436] Water Resources Management (8th Semester - Elective)

• [A-102] Integrated Water Resources Management

• Dionyssios Efstathiou
• Sofia Neratzaki