Dr.Michael Loizides

Dr Michalis I. Loizides has been the General Director of ISOTECH Ltd since 1998. Dr Loizides is a Chemical and Environmental Engineer. Born in 1966, he graduated from the National Technical University of Athens in Chemical Engineering and obtained his Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. He received his PhD from the National Technical University of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering on the issue of co-composting of olive oil mill effluent. Since 1990, he has worked as an external associate of the National Technical University of Athens and as an Environmental Engineer in several research projects. He has been the scientific coordinator of more than 40 research projects, funded by the EU (e.g. LIFE, Leonardo da Vinci, 5th-6th-7th EU Framework Programmes for Research, MEDA, and other), international agencies (e.g. by UNEP, UNDP, USAID), transnational bodies (e.g. DAC projects), national agencies (e.g. Cyprus Research Foundation) and private entities in a broad spectrum of the environmental protection scientific field. Water and waste-water, solid waste, air pollution, Environmental Impact Studies, ISO 14000 and Community Annoyance, are among his main areas of interest, oriented on applied research and engineering solutions. He provides technical consultancy to several Municipalities and Communities in Cyprus on waste management and community annoyance issues. From 2005 to 2014 he cooperated with the University of Cyprus as Research and Teaching Fellow, teaching final year Civil and Environmental Engineering students the environmental part of their capstone design project. Since 2010, he has been a lecturer at Frederick University for the MSc degree on Environmental Education. He chairs the Environmental Technical Committee on the peace-building negotiations and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus.