Dr Vicky Skoulou

Are you passionate about biomass and waste, resilient low carbon waste- to -energy, H2 and net zero carbon energy solutions?

Dr Vicky Skoulou looking forward to collaborate on integrated Renewable Energy (RES) generation systems and integrated concepts, emphasized in biomass & other wastes' thermochemical treatments (carbonization/torrefaction/carbonization/pyrolysis/gasification and clean combustion-CCU /CCS) for net zero carbon decentralized energy generation!

Dr Vicky Skoulou is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineeiring and the PI of the B3: Biomass & Waste -BioenergH2- Biochars Group of PGRs and PDRAs. My expertise covers the biomass waste pretreatments, low carbon thermal/thermochemical treatments (mainly pyrolysis and gasification) of lignocellulosic biomass residues, solid fuels, waste and their blends as well as designing of thermochemical reactors for waste to energy, H2 and chars- activated carbons production.

She received her PhD in 2009 from Chem. Engineering Dept. of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th), Greece under the supervision of Prof. Anastasia Zabaniotou. Outcome was the design, scaling up, construction and cold and hot flow operation as well as experimentation in a mobile 5KWth fluidized bed (FB) gasifier for decentralized syngas-H2-energy production from agricultural waste in collaboration with industry (Philipoppoulos Energy Technical S.A., Greece). She subsequently received the Research Excellence Award (2010) to continue my research on co-pyrolysis and co-gasification of biodiesel industry waste/lignocellulosic waste and mixtures for syngas (H2+CO) production (collaboration with Vert Oil S.A.). In 2011 She eceived a Pan-Hellenic award (State scholarship) from the National Funding Scholarships Association, Greece for assessing the low carbon pyrolysis and gasification characteristics of natural biopolymers (lignin and cellulose) of locally available lignocellulosic wastes and mixtures. As a result I was one of the 79 best researchers of A.U.Th for 2010-11, among >2,500 active research staff at that time, and honored by the Secretary of the Hellenic Ministry of Higher Education in the Awards ceremony 'A.U.Th University Excellence' ( 21/9/2011). On 2012 I was offered the Research Associate position in Chem. Engineering Dept. at Imperial College (ICL), London where she established an advanced thermal treatment reactor (spouted bed gasifier for coal/woody biomass exploitation) running under pyrolysis and gasification conditions, as well as dealt with gaseous emissions control. On January 2014, she was appointed as a Lecturer in Chem. Engineering , Faculty of Science and Engineering (FoSE) University of Hull (UoH). Was also one of the few co-founding members of the Chemical Engineering studies (2014) at the University of Hull at that time. On February 2019, appointed as Director of Research (DR) of Chemical Engineering Department, and on August 2020 promoted to Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Professor) in Chemical Engineering -Biomass Waste to Energy. Between March 2021-July 2022 served the role of DR of both Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Departments, UoH, while from August 2022 she serves the role of Graduate Research Director (GRD) of School of Engineering (Chem, Elec, Mec and Med. Engineering subjects) , UoH. During the last 17 years, she participate(d) as PI and Co-I in 29 research projects in the field of Biomass/Waste -Solid fuels- Low carbon energy/Biofuels- H2- Biochars, emission control and activated carbons. The majority of research projects she participate(d) are/ were funded by UK funding bodies in UK ( EPSRC, HEFCE, British Council) and abroad (H2020, FP7, European Commission, General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GTRT), Greek Ministries of Higher Education and Ministry of Development) as well as co-funded by private sector abroad and in UK. Her published work has at least 2100 known citations (August 2025), according to Google Scholar, with an h-index =23 and h10-index =30 (Scopus h index= 21 ) Vice Chair and UK representative in the Management Committee as well as active member of the Working Groups of EU Cost Action LIASE (2023-2027) and Working Group member of PoTArc (2023-2027) EU Cost Action.