Invited Speakers

Prof. Ioannis Ieropoulos

Ioannis Ieropoulos, Director of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre, is a Professor of Bioenergy and Self-Sustainable Systems and an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow at UWE, Bristol. He has produced EcoBots I and II for his PhD (2002, 2005) and was the lead Researcher for the EU FP6 Integrated project “Integrating Cognition, Emotion and Autonomy (ICEA)”, which successfully resulted in the development of EcoBot-III. For the last 14 years he has been working on autonomous robotics and further improving MFC technology, both as a power generator and also a waste and wastewater treatment technology. He is the P.I. on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project Urine-tricity, which is looking to develop the MFC technology for Developing World Countries and he also leads UWE in a an EU H2020 project investigating living architecture, EU FP7 FET project, EVOBLISS and a Leverhulme Trust grant, joint with the University of Bristol that is looking into biodegradable robots powered by biodegradable MFCs. He has published >100 peer reviewed journal papers and has been invited to present at numerous conferences and workshops. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and he is also the Associate Editor for the Journal of Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier).

Project management expertise

Ieropoulos has developed into a manager of projects and personnel in the course of his Career Acceleration Fellowship. The result of this has been the establishment of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre (BBiC) at the University of the West of England, of which he is the Director, with 17 core and 4 affiliated members of staff. All of the recent and current projects, Ieropoulos has been/is the PI with direct management responsibility and accountability.