Vasilios Sakkas

Vasilios Sakkas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina. His expertise lies in Analytical Chemistry with a focus on environmental and chemical analysis, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses including Analytical Chemistry I, Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory, and Chemometrics.

Research Interests include:

• Development of advanced analytical techniques (chromatography, spectrometry)
• Chemometric optimization of analytical methods
• Environmental pollution control (pesticides, pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors)
• Photocatalytic degradation of pollutants
• Application of artificial neural networks in chemical analysis

His work emphasizes water pollution control and microextraction methods for contaminant detection. Publications demonstrate expertise in GC-MS, LC-MS, and magnetic sorbents for analyzing environmental and food matrices.