Manousos-Ioannis Manousakas

1. Manousakas is a chemist and he graduated from the Chemistry Department of the University of Patras. He holds an MSc in Environmental analysis and got specialized in atmospheric aerosol studies during his PhD studies. During his studies he was focused on the chemical characterization of aerosol samples using chemical and especially nuclear techniques (XRF, PIXE) and aerosol sources identification and characterization.  He is working as a post-doctoral fellow at NCSR Demokritos since January 2015, in the framework of the research programs funded by National Government and/or the European Commission.  He is an accredited XRF analyst according to accreditation certificate No. 447-3 for EN ISO/IEC 14902: 2005 Standard and has significant experience in aerosol sampling and analysis, for ambient atmosphere and industrial emissions. His main specialty is the application of aerosol source apportionment techniques using receptor models. He has been employed as an International Expert for the application of source apportionment techniques in several missions in Europe, Africa and Asia from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Indicative publications

Gunchin, G., Manousakas, M., Osan, J., A.G.Karydas, Eleftheriadis, K., S.Lodoysamba, D.Shagjjamba, Migliori, A., Padilla-Alvarez, R., Streli, C., Darby, I.G., 2019. Three-year long source apportionment study of airborne particles in Ulaanbaatar using X-ray fluorescence and Positive Matrix Factorization. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. doi:10.4209/aaqr.2018.09.0351

Manousakas, M., Diapouli, E., Papaefthymiou, H., Kantarelou, V., Zarkadas, C., Kalogridis, A.-C., Karydas, A.G., Eleftheriadis, K., 2017. XRF characterization and source apportionment of PM10 samples collected in a coastal city. X-Ray Spectrom. 1–11. doi:10.1002/xrs.2817

Manousakas, M., Papaefthymiou, H., Diapouli, E., Migliori, A., Karydas, A.G., Bogdanovic-Radovic, I., Eleftheriadis, K., 2017. Assessment of PM2.5 sources and their corresponding level of uncertainty in a coastal urban area using EPA PMF 5.0 enhanced diagnostics. Sci. Total Environ. 574, 155–164. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.047

Manousakas, M., Diapouli, E., Papaefthymiou, H., Migliori, A., Karydas, A. G., Padilla-Alvarez, R., Bogovac, M., Kaiser, R.B., Jaksic, M., Bogdanovic-Radovic, I., Eleftheriadis, K., 2015. Source apportionment by PMF on elemental concentrations obtained by PIXE analysis of PM10 samples collected at the vicinity of lignite power plants and mines in Megalopolis, Greece. Nucl. Instruments Methods Phys. Res. Sect. B Beam Interact. with Mater. Atoms 349, 114–124. doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2015.02.037