Dimitra Papadaki

Title
Adjunct Faculty, College of Aviation
Email
Department
Department of Aeronautics
College
College of Aviation

Areas of Expertise

Sustainability, Life cycle Assessment, Circularity, Energy efficiency, Environmental Engineering



Dr. Dimitra Papadaki is a Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University and a Senior Researcher at the University of Athens. She holds a Degree in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an M.Sc. in Environment and Resource Management from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, focusing on Energy studies. Her Ph.D. was conducted at the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), where she worked as a junior researcher, and at the Technical University of Crete, School of Environmental Engineering. During her Ph.D., she conducted research at the Council of Science and Industrial Research/Nanosciences and Nanostructures Department - South Africa, the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and the Institute National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada. She holds a VU Fellowship scholarship of excellence for her M.Sc. by Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.


  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
  • M. - Master in Environment and Resource Management, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Environmental Physics and Meteorology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

  • AASI 611: Sust Av Fuels & Carb Offs

AASI 637: Aircraft Decommissioning and Circular Economy

AASI 629: Sustainable Air Vehicles; Design and Propulsion
AASI 625: Sustainability Policy in Aviation and Aerospace


  1. D. Papadaki, S. Foteinis, G.H. Mhlongo, S.S. Nkosi, D.E. Motaung, S.S. Ray, T. Tsoutsos, and G. Kiriakidis. 2017. Life Cycle Assessment of Facile Microwave-Assisted Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Nanostructures. Science of the Total Environment (2017). Elsevier B.V. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.019
  2. D. Papadaki, G. Kiriakidis, T. Tsoutsos. Applications of nanoparticles Technologies in the construction industry, Book: Fundamentals of Nanoparticles Classifications, Synthesis Methods, Properties and Characterization, 343-370, Elsevier, (2017) ISBN: 978-0-323-51255-8, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-51255-8.00011-2
  3. D. Papadaki, Nikolaou, D.A.; Assimakopoulos, M.N. Circular Environmental Impact of Recycled Building Materials and Residential Renewable Energy. Sustainability (2022), 14, 4039. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074039 
  4. V. Ntouros, I. Kousis, D. Papadaki, A.L. Pisello, M.N. Assimakopoulos, Life Cycle Assessment on Different Synthetic Routes of ZIF-8 Nanomaterials, Energies (2021) 14(16):4998, https://doi.org/10.3390/en14164998 
  5. D. Papadaki, S. Foteinis, V. Binas, M.N. Assimakopoulos, T. Tsoutsos, G. Kiriakidis. A life cycle assessment of PCM and VIP in warm Mediterranean climates and their introduction as a strategy to promote energy savings and mitigate carbon emissions, (2019), AIMS, Materials Science,6(6): 944–959. DOI: 10.3934/matersci.2019.6.944