Maria-Christina Constantinou

Maria-Christina Constantinou holds a Diploma and Integrated Μaster’s degree in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) where she specialised in plastics and polymers . Her research focused on the recycling of used PVC flooring. She later earned her MSc in Chemical Process Engineering: Advance Chemical Engineering from University College London (UCL), where she worked on optimizing water management technologies for arsenic removal. Maria-Christina has been part of AKTI since 2022 and she works on projects related to sustainability and marine plastic pollution. For the past 3 years she leads the very first field research project on the detection of microplastics in Cyprus’s beaches and works on the Zero Waste HoReCa program in Cyprus and Malta, which supports the green transition of HoReCa businesses.