Tsihrintzis Vassilios
Position:
Professor - Department of Infrastructure and Rural Development
Address:
Office: Vei building, B.123, 1st floor
Laboratory of Reclamation Works and Water Resources Management Scope
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Phone:
+30 210 772 2620
Miscellaneous Information:
Greek CV - English CV
 

Dr. Tsihrintzis was born in Athens. He holds a Civil Engineering Diploma from the University of Patras, Greece (1982), and MSc (1983) and PhD (1988) degrees from the Hydrosystems Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Illinois, USA. Since 1982 he is working in the area of Water Resources Management and Environmental Engineering, with emphasis on Ecological Engineering, Ecohydrology and Ecohydraulics. In the USA, he worked as a Research Associate in the Illinois State Water Survey in Illinois, as a Consulting Engineer in the companies Simons, Li & Assoc. and Psomas & Assoc. in California, and as a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Between 1997 and 2013, he was a Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece, and since 2013, he is a Professor in the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

 

Current Position

Professor of Ecological Engineering and Technology, Centre for the Assessment of Natural Hazards and Proactive Planning & Laboratory of Reclamation Works and Water Resources Management, Department of Infrastructure and Rural Development, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

 

 

Research Interests

  • Water Resources Management, Ecohydrology, Ecohydraulics, Quality of Aquatic Systems, Non-Point Source Pollution, Sediment Transport
  • Ecological Engineering, Wetland Restoration, Wastewater, Sludge and Runoff Treatment in Constructed Wetlands and Stabilization Ponds
  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Stratified Flows
 
  • Computer Applications, Mathematical models, Geographic Information System Applications (GIS) in the Management of Water Resources and the Environment

Professional Interests

  • Hydrological-Hydraulic Studies and Design, Design of Constructed Wetlands
   

Selected Publications

 A. Stefanakis, C. Akratos and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2014). Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands: Eco-Engineering Systems for Wastewater and Sludge Treatment , Elsevier, 378p. ISBN: 978-0-12-404612-2.
   C.S. Akratos and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2007). Effect of Temperature, HRT, Vegetation and Porous Media on Removal Efficiency of Pilot-Scale Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands, Ecological Engineering , Vol. 29, No. 2, February, pp. 173-191 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2006.06.013).
   M. Sidiropoulou, K. Moutsopoulos and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2007). Determination of Forccheimer Equation Coefficients a and b, Hydrological Processes , Vol. 21, No. 4, February 15, pp. 534-554 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6264).
   C.S. Akratos, J.N.E. Papaspyros and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2009). Total Nitrogen and Ammonia Removal Prediction in Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands: Use of Artificial Neural Networks and Development of a Design Equation, Bioresource Technology , Vol. 100, No. 2, January, pp. 586-596 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2008.06.071).
   K.N. Moutsopoulos, V. Poultsidis, I.N.E. Papaspyros and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2011). Simulation of Hydrodynamics and Nitrogen Transformation Processes in HSF Constructed Wetlands and Porous Media Using the Advection-Dispersion-Reaction Equation with Linear Sink-Source Terms, Ecological Engineering , Vol. 37, No. 9, September, pp. 1407-1415 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.03.034).
   A.I. Stefanakis, D.P. Komilis and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2011). Stability and Maturity of Thickened Wastewater Sludge Treated in Pilot-scale Sludge Treatment Wetlands, Water Research , Vol. 45, No. 19, pp. 6441-6452 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2011.09.036).
   A.I. Stefanakis and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2012). Heavy Metal Fate in Pilot-scale Sludge Drying Reed Beds under Various Design and Operation Conditions, Journal of Hazardous Materials , Vol. 213-214, April 30, pp. 393-405 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.02.016).
   I. Boskidis, G.D. Gikas, G. Sylaios, V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2012). Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling of Lower Nestos River Basin, Water Resources Management , Vol. 26, No. 10, August, pp. 3023–3051 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11269-012-0064-7).
   G.D. Gikas and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2012). Assessment of Water Quality of First-flush Roof Runoff and Harvested Rainwater, Journal of Hydrology , Vol. 466–467, pp. 115–126 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.08.020).
   G. Sylaios, N. Kamidis, S. Anastasiou and V.A. Tsihrintzis. (2013). Hydrodynamic Response of Thassos Passage (N. Aegean Sea) to Nestos River Discharge and Meteorological Forcing, Continental Shelf Research , Vol. 59, pp. 37–51 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2013.04.003).
   V. Pisinaras, C. Petalas, V.A. Tsihrintzis and G.P. Karatzas. (2013). Integrated Modeling as a Decision-aiding Tool for Groundwater Management in a Mediterranean Agricultural Watershed, Hydrological Processes , Vol. 27, No. 14, July, pp. 1973-1987 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9331).

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