Dr. Spyros G. Pavlostathis                         

 

 Professor and Coordinator

 Environmental Engineering Program
 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 Georgia Institute of Technology 

 

 Environmental Science & Technology Building
 311 Ferst Drive 
 Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0512 USA 
 Phone: (404) 894-9367 Fax: (404) 894-8266
 E-mail: spyros.pavlostathis@ce.gatech.edu
 URL: http://www.ce.gatech.edu/~spavlost/

 CURRICULUM VITAE

  
 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 1985 

  • M.S., Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 1982 
  • Diploma, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, 1974 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 

  • Professor: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - August 1999 to present

  • Associate Professor: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - September 1994 to July 1999 

  • Assistant Professor: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - August 1991 to August 1994 

  • Assistant Professor: Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY - June 1988 to July 1991 

  • Project Engineer: Golder Associates, Atlanta, GA - 1987 to 1988

  • Research Associate: Wadsworth Center, Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, NY State Department of Health, Albany, NY - 1985 to 1987 

  • Visiting Assistant Professor: Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - 1984 to 1985

  • Instructor: Agricultural Engineering Department, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece - 1976 to 1979

  • Non-Commissioned Officer: Greek Air Force, 1974-1976

TEACHING INTERESTS

Environmental Engineering Principles, Environmental Engineering Systems, Hazardous Substance Engineering, Microbial Principles in Environmental Engineering, Biological Processes, Biotransformation of Xenobiotic Compounds, Environmental Science & Engineering Laboratory

RESEARCH INTERESTS & EXPERTISE

My research interests include applied environmental biotechnology and bioprocesses for the bioremediation of contaminated natural systems, the treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater, as well as the treatment and utilization of food and agricultural waste and by-products. My research has focused on the bioavailability, fate and biotransformation of recalcitrant organic compounds such as dyes, pesticides, antioxidants, disinfectants, and antibiotics, the biotransformation of emerging environmental contaminants, the production of bioenergy and biofuels from waste streams, the development of halophilic and thermophilic microbial processes, as well as the kinetics and modeling of biotransformation/treatment processes. Research has been applied to site remediation, as well as municipal, photoprocessing, pulp-and-paper, textile, and food processing industries for the development of innovative, cost-effective sustainable environmental technologies.

(Research Overview Slide) 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS 

Beydilli, M. I., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2005. Decolorization Kinetics of the Azo Dye Reactive Red 2 under Methanogenic Conditions: Effect of Long-Term Culture Acclimation. Biodegradation 16:135-146.

Epolito, W. J., Y. H. Lee, L. A. Bottomley, and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2005. Characterization of the Textile Anthraquinone Dye Reactive Blue 4. Dyes and Pigments 67:35-46.

Yeh, D. H., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2005. Anaerobic Biodegradability of Tween Surfactants Used as a Carbon Source for the Microbial Reductive Dechlorination of Hexachlorobenzene. Water Science & Technology 52(1-2):343-349.

Lee, Y. H., R. D. Matthews, and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2005. Anaerobic Biodecolorization of Textile Reactive Anthraquinone and Phthalocyanine Dyebaths under Hypersaline Conditions. Water Science & Technology 52(1-2):377-383.

Shah, A. G., J. A. Pierson, and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2005. Fate and Effect of the Antioxidant Ethoxyquin on a Mixed Methanogenic Culture. Water Research 39:4251-4263.

Okutman Tas, D., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2005. Microbial Reductive Transformation of Pentachloronitrobenzene under Methanogenic Conditions. Environmental Science & Technology 39:8264-8272.

Lee, Y. H., R. D. Matthews, and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2006. Biological Decolorization of Reactive Anthraquinone and Phthalocyanine Dyes under Various Oxidation-Reduction Conditions. Water Environment Research 78:156-169.

Cervantes, F. J., S. G. Pavlostathis, and A. van Haandel (Eds). 2006. Advanced Biological Treatment for Industrial Wastewaters: Principles & Applications, IWA Publishing, London, UK.

Cervantes, F. J., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2006. Strategies for Industrial Water Pollution Control. In Advanced Biological Treatment for Industrial Wastewaters: Principles & Applications, F. J. Cervantes, S. G. Pavlostathis, and A. van Haandel (Eds.). Ch. 1, IWA Publishing, London, UK.

Pavlostathis, S. G. 2006. Basic Concepts of Biological Processes. In Advanced Biological Treatment for Industrial Wastewaters: Principles & Applications, F. J. Cervantes, S. G. Pavlostathis, and A. van Haandel (Eds.). Ch. 2, IWA Publishing, London, UK.

Okutman Tas, D., I. N. Thomson, F. E. Löffler, and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2006. Kinetics of the Microbial Reductive Dechlorination of Pentachloroaniline. Environmental Science & Technology 40:4467-4472.

Pavlostathis, S. G., R. Marchant, I. M. Banat, N. G. Ternan, and G. McMullan. 2006. High Growth Rate and Substrate Exhaustion Results in Rapid Cell Death and Lysis in the Thermophilic Bacterium Geobacillus thermoleovorans. Biotechnology & Bioengineering 95:84-95.

Tugtas, A. E., U. Tezel, and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2006. An Extension of the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 to Include the Effect of Nitrate Reduction Processes. Water Science & Technology 54(4):41-49.

Tezel, U., J. A. Pierson, and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2006. Fate and Effect of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds on a Mixed Methanogenic Culture. Water Research 40:3660-3668.

Tezel, U., J. A. Pierson, and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2007. Effect of Polyelectrolytes and Quaternary Ammonium Compounds on the Anaerobic Biological Treatment of Poultry Processing Wastewater. Water Research 41:1334-1342.

Tugtas, A. E., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2007a. Inhibitory Effects of Nitrogen Oxides on a Mixed Methanogenic Culture. Biotechnology & Bioengineering 96:444-455.

Tugtas, A. E., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2007b. Effect of Sulfide on Nitrate Reduction in Mixed Methanogenic Cultures. Biotechnology & Bioengineering 97:1448-1459.

Tugtas, A. E., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2007c. Electron Donor Effect on Nitrate Reduction Pathway and Kinetics in a Mixed Methanogenic Culture. Biotechnology & Bioengineering 98:756-763.

Okutman Tas, D., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2007. Temperature and pH Effect on the Microbial Reductive Transformation of Pentachloronitrobenzene. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 55:5390-5398.

Okutman Tas, D., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2007. The Influence of Iron Reduction on the Reductive Biotransformation of Pentachloronitrobenzene. European Journal of Soil Biology 43:264-275.

Beydilli, I. M., and S. G. Pavlostathis. 2007. Biodecolorization of the Azo Dye Reactive Red 2 in a Halotolerant Enrichment Culture. Water Environment Research 79:2446-2456.

Kabouris, J. C., U. Tezel, S. G. Pavlostathis, M. Engelmann, A. C. Todd, and R. A. Gillette. The Anaerobic Biodegradability of Municipal Sludge and FOG under Mesophilic Conditions. Water Environment Research (In press).

 

Last updated: November 2007