Vasiliki Karanikola
- Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Assistant Professor, Biosystems Engineering
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor, Indigenous Food / Energy / Water Systems - GIDP
- (520) 621-5881
- Civil Engineering, Rm. 306E
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- vkaranik@arizona.edu
Biography
Prior to her assistant professor position at the ChEE UA, Dr. Vicky Karanikola was a postdoctoral fellow at 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 UA. 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 with her academic career, she is very strongly involved with EWB (Engineers without Borders), an organization that works on engineering 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.
Degrees
- Ph.D. Environmental Engineering
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
- Membrane Distillation: Parametric Studies and Numerical Simulations for Hollow Fiber and Flat Sheet Membranes
- M.S. Environmental Engineering
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
- Sweeping gas membranedistillation : Numerical simulation of massand heat transfer in a hollow fiber membrane module
- M.S. Civil Engineering
- San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States
- PLANKTON FILTRATION WITH FLEXIBLE PARTICULATE PACKS
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering
- Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Serres, Serres, Greece
Awards
- runner-up for the U.S. ASPIRE prize from State Department
- United States Department of State--BUREAU OF OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS, Spring 2021
- Early Career Scholars Award
- University of Arizona Provost Office, Spring 2020
- Haury Program-Faculty Fellowship
- Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, Spring 2017
- 2017 Faculty Fellow for Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice
- Arizona Foundation, Fall 2016 (Award Finalist)
- WPI STEM Faculty launch fellowship
- WPI University, Fall 2016
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Chemical Engineering
CHEE 696A (Spring 2025) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Spring 2025) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Spring 2025) -
Chemical Engineering
CHEE 696A (Fall 2024) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Fall 2024) -
Environmental+Water Engr
CE 370R (Fall 2024) -
Environmental+Water Engr
CHEE 370R (Fall 2024) -
Independent Study
CHEE 299 (Fall 2024) -
Intro to Env Eng
CHEE 270 (Fall 2024) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Chemical Engineering
CHEE 696A (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Spring 2024) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Spring 2024) -
Water for Remote Communities
CHEE 514 (Spring 2024) -
Chemical Engineering
CHEE 696A (Fall 2023) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Fall 2023) -
Intro to Env Eng
CHEE 270 (Fall 2023) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Chemical Engineering
CHEE 696A (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Spring 2023) -
Independent Study
CHEE 599 (Spring 2023) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Spring 2023) -
Thesis
CHEE 910 (Spring 2023) -
Water for Remote Communities
CHEE 514 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Fall 2022) -
Honors Independent Study
CHEE 399H (Fall 2022) -
Intro to Env Eng
CHEE 270 (Fall 2022) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Fall 2022) -
Thesis
CHEE 910 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Spring 2022) -
Environmental Engineering Lab
CHEE 400B (Spring 2022) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Spring 2022) -
Thesis
CHEE 910 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Fall 2021) -
Intro to Env Eng
CHEE 270 (Fall 2021) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Fall 2021) -
Thesis
CHEE 910 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Spring 2021) -
Honors Independent Study
CHEE 399H (Spring 2021) -
Independent Study
CHEE 599 (Spring 2021) -
Intro to Env Eng
CHEE 270 (Spring 2021) -
Master's Report
CHEE 909 (Spring 2021) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Spring 2021) -
Thesis
CHEE 910 (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Fall 2020) -
Independent Study
CHEE 599 (Fall 2020) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Spring 2020) -
Honors Independent Study
CHEE 399H (Spring 2020) -
Independent Study
CHEE 299 (Spring 2020) -
Intro to Env Eng
CHEE 270 (Spring 2020) -
Dissertation
CHEE 920 (Fall 2019) -
Independent Study
CHEE 499 (Fall 2019) -
Independent Study
CHEE 599 (Fall 2019) -
Research
CHEE 900 (Fall 2019)
2016-17 Courses
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Envirnmtl+Water Engr Lab
CE 370L (Spring 2017) -
Envirnmtl+Water Engr Lab
CHEE 370L (Spring 2017) -
Environmental Engineering Lab
CHEE 400B (Spring 2017) -
Environmental+Water Engr
CE 370R (Spring 2017) -
Environmental+Water Engr
CHEE 370R (Spring 2017) -
Careers in Environmental Eng
CHEE 295E (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Careers in Environmental Eng
CHEE 295E (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Yavuz, A. B., Karanikola, V., García-Payo, M., Khayet, M., Hilal, N., Ismail, A. F., Khayet, M., & Johnson, D. (2021). 9 - Osmotic distillation and osmotic membrane distillation for the treatment of different feed solutions. In 9 - Osmotic distillation and osmotic membrane distillation for the treatment of different feed solutions(pp 245-278). Elsevier.
Journals/Publications
- Durkin, T. J., Barua, B., Holmstrom, J. J., Karanikola, V., & Savagatrup, S. (2023).
Functionalized Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Complex Emulsions for Selective Sensing of Dissolved Metals at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces
. Langmuir, 39(36), 12845-12854. doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01761 - Jiang, H., Straub, A. P., & Karanikola, V. (2022). Ammonia Recovery with Sweeping Gas Membrane Distillation: Energy and Removal Efficiency Analysis. ACS ES&T Engineering.
- Borovik, A., Karanikola, V., & Zucker, I. (2020). Platform selection of engineered nanomaterials for water decontamination applications. Environ. Sci.: Nano, 7, 3641-3654.
- Shaulsky, E., Wang, Z., Deshmukh, A., Karanikola, V., & Elimelech, M. (2020). Membrane distillation assisted by heat pump for improved desalination energy efficiency. Desalination, 496, 114694.
- Dizge, N., Shaulsky, E., & Karanikola, V. (2019). Electrospun cellulose nanofibers for superhydrophobic and oleophobic membranes. JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, 590.
- Karanikola, V., Moore, S. E., Deshmukh, A., Arnold, R. G., Elimelech, M., & Sáez, A. E. (2019). Economic performance of membrane distillation configurations in optimal solar thermal desalination systems. Desalination, 472, 114164.
- Shaulsky, E., Karanikola, V., Straub, A. P., Deshmukh, A., Zucker, I., & Elimelech, M. (2019). Asymmetric membranes for membrane distillation and thermo-osmotic energy conversion. DESALINATION, 452, 141-148.
- Deshmukh, A., Boo, C., Karanikola, V., Lin, S., Straub, A. P., Tong, T., Warsinger, D. M., & Elimelech, M. (2018). Membrane distillation at the water-energy nexus: limits, opportunities, and challenges. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 11(5), 1177-1196.
- Karanikola, V., Boo, C., Rolf, J., & Elimelech, M. (2018). Engineered Slippery Surface to Mitigate Gypsum Scaling in Membrane Distillation for Treatment of Hypersaline Industrial Wastewaters. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 52(24), 14362-14370.
- Li, M., Karanikola, V., Zhang, X., Wang, L., & Elimelech, M. (2018). A Self-Standing, Support-Free Membrane for Forward Osmosis with No Internal Concentration Polarization. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, 5(5), 266-271.
- Moore, S. E., Ma, L., Potzler, M., Bish, J., Karanikola, V., Prevatt, J., Arnold, R. G., & Saez, A. E. (2018). Sustainable Struvite Control Using Carbon Dioxide. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, 144(12).
- Moore, S. E., Mirchandani, S. D., Karanikola, V., Nenoff, T. M., Arnold, R. G., & Saez, A. E. (2018). Process modeling for economic optimization of a solar driven sweeping gas membrane distillation desalination system. DESALINATION, 437, 108-120.
- Moore, S., Mirchandani, S., Karanikola, V., Nenoff, T., Arnold, R., & Saez, A. (2018). Process modeling and economic optimization of a solar driven membrane distillation system for desalination. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 255.
- Snyder, K. A., Corral, A. F., Woods, G. J., Prichard, A., Montgomery, M., & Karanikola, V. (2018).
Challenges and lessons learnt from a sanitation project in rural Bolivia
. Development in Practice, 28(7), 911-921. doi:10.1080/09614524.2018.1481198More infoThe University of Arizona chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA has faced multiple challenges involving community participation in rural development, in the Andean community of Marquirivi, Boliv... - Karanikola, V., Corral, A. F., Jiang, H., Saez, A. E., Ela, W. P., & Arnold, R. G. (2017). Effects of membrane structure and operational variables on membrane distillation performance. JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, 524, 87-96.
- Moores, S., Ma, L., Karanikola, V., Arnold, R., Saez, A., Moulis, D., Bish, J., & Prevatt, J. (2017). Sustainable struvite control and recovery in wastewater treatment plants using residual biogas. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 253.
- Karanikola, V., Corral, A. F., Jiang, H., Saez, A. E., Ela, W. P., & Arnold, R. G. (2015). Sweeping gas membrane distillation: Numerical simulation of mass and heat transfer in a hollow fiber membrane module. JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, 483, 15-24.
- Karanikola, V., Ngo, A. T., & Valdes, J. R. (2011). Plankton filtration with compressible crumb rubber packs. CHEMOSPHERE, 82(4), 597-602.