ARGYRO TSIPA
Dr Argyro Tsipa is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Biotechnology in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Cyprus. In 2010, she obtained a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece, while she received her M.Sc. (2011) and PhD (2016) in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. She subsequently worked as a research associate at the National Innovation and Knowledge Centre of the United Kingdom and at the Synthetic Biology Centre at Imperial College on the adoption and use of synthetic biology by industry. She is the Founder and Head of the Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory (EmBIOSysTech) and is a member of the academic council of the Nireas International Water Research Center of the University of Cyprus.
She is among the founding members and coordinator of the “Women in Engineering” committee of the Polytechnic School of the University of Cyprus, in which she still participates. She also actively participated in the COST PHOENIX action (CA19123) related to environmental protection, which was funded by the HORIZON2020 European Union. She has 17 publications in scientific journals.
Her research concerns biological systems engineering and the biodegradation of (industrial) wastewater that is converted into value-added products, focusing on the characterization of the microorganisms involved and the products formed, in the context of the circular economy.
- Tsipa A., Puig S., Peixoto L., Paquete C. (2025). Electro-bioremediation of wastewater: transitioning the focus on pure cultures to elucidate the missing mechanistic insights upon electro-assisted biodegradation of exemplary pollutants. Journal of Environmental Management, 373, 123726
- Varnava C.K., Persianis P., Ieropoulos I., Tsipa A. (2024). Electricity generation and real oily wastewater treatment by Pseudomonas citronellolis 620C in a microbial fuel cell: pyocyanin production as electron shuttle. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 47, 903–917.
- Varnava C.K., Grenni P., Mariani L., Hadjipakkou H., Lefkaritis G., Pinakoulaki E., Chronakis N., Kalogerakis N., Tsipa A. (2024). Characterization, Production Optimization and Ecotoxicity of a Lipopeptide Biosurfactant by Pseudomonas citronellolis using oily wastewater, Biochemical Engineering Journal, 205, 109257
- Tsipa A., Papalli M., Christou A., Pissaridou P., Vasquez M. I. (2023). Ex-situ biological treatment of industrial saline seafood wastewater by salt-tolerant mixed cultures and phytotoxicity evaluation, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 11, 109195.
- Tsipa A. , Stylianou K., Papalli M., Papageorgiou E., Kyriakou L., Rigopoulos I., Ioannou I., Pinakoulaki E. (2021). Iron-Stimulated Production and Antimicrobial Potential of a Novel Biosurfactant Produced by a Drilling Waste-Degrading Pseudomonas citronellolis Strain, Processes, 9, 686
- Tsipa A.*., Pitt J.A.*, Banga J., Mantalaris A.. (2020). A dual parameter identification approach for data-based predictive modelling of hybrid gene regulatory network-growth kinetics in Pseudomonas putida mt-2, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 43, 1671–1688
- Buldum G*., Tsipa A.*, Mantalaris A. (2020). Linking engineered gene circuits kinetic modelling to cellulose biosynthesis prediction in Escherichia coli: towards bioprocessing of microbial cell factories. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 59, 4659-4669.
- Tsipa A., Koutinas M., Usaku C., Mantalaris A. (2018). Optimal bioprocess design through a gene regulatory network – Growth kinetic hybrid model: Towards replacing Monod kinetics. Metabolic Engineering, 48, 129-137.
- Tsipa A., Koutinas M., Pistikopoulos E.N., Mantalaris A. (2016). Transcriptional kinetics of the cross-talk between the ortho-cleavage and TOL pathways of toluene biodegradation in Pseudomonas putida mt-2. Journal of Biotechnology, 228, 112-123.