University of Arizona
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Interests:
Environmental Sustainability, Advance Water and Wastewater Treatment ProcessesBio:
Prior to her assistant professor position in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona, Dr. Vicky Karanikola was a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering department at Yale University. Dr. Karanikola has an interdisciplinary engineering background combining a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Greece, an MSc degree in Civil Engineering from San Diego State University (SDSU), and both MSc and PhD degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Arizona. Her PhD research focused on off-grid water and wastewater treatment through hybrid thermal processes (Membrane Distillation) and Nanofiltration. During her postdoctoral appointment she focused on membrane material synthesis and modification for water and wastewater treatment.
Alongside her academic career, she is very strongly involved with EWB (Engineers without Borders), an organization that works on engineerpenning projects in developing communities. She served as the mentor of the UA chapter and is currently involved with the EWB-USA headquarters as the vice president of the EWB Mountain Region Steering Committee. Dr. Karanikola’s research work with marginalized communities at Tribal Nations was recently recognized with the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice Faculty fellowship.
