Katerina Troullaki

Katerina is an Electrical and Computers Engineer with a MSc in Environmental Management, Sustainable Energy and Climate change. She has been awarded a HFRI PhD scholarship grant (2019-2022) to explore the sustainability potential of an emerging production system that bridges global digital commons with local manufacturing practices.

Her research interests pivot around: transdisciplinary research, sustainability assessment, technology assessment, decentralized production, open-source technology, rural electrification, sustainability transitions.

Since 2012, Katerina has been participating in interdisciplinary research projects in both research (desktop, benchtop and fieldwork) and administrative tasks. She is a member of the Bioeconomy and Biosystems Economics Lab of the Technical University of Crete, a P2P Lab fellow and a member of the COSMOLOCALISM research team. She is also a member of the Wind Empowerment international association and has been a member of its board for 4 years.

Selected publications:

• Priavolou, C., Troullaki, K., Tsiouris, N., Giotitsas, C., & Kostakis, V. (2022). Tracing sustainable production from a degrowth and localisation perspective: A case of 3D printers. Journal of Cleaner Production, 376, 134291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134291

• Troullaki, K.; Rozakis, S.; Latoufis, K.; Giotitsas, C.; Priavolou, C.; Freire, F. (2022) Sustainable Rural Electrification: Harnessing a Cosmolocal Wind. Energies, 15, 4659. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15134659

• Troullaki, K., Rozakis, S., & Kostakis, V. (2021). Bridging barriers in sustainability research: Α review from sustainability science to life cycle sustainability assessment. Ecological Economics, 184, 107007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107007

• Pazaitis, A., Kostakis, V., Kallis, G., & Troullaki, K. (2020). Should We Look for a Hero to Save Us from the Coronavirus? The Commons as an Alternative Trajectory for Social Change. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 613–621. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1203

• Troullaki, K., Latoufis, K., Marques, P., Freire, F., & Hatziargyriou, N. (2019). Life Cycle Assessment of Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines and Pico-Hydro Plants. 2019 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST.2019.8849074

• Latoufis, K., Troullaki, K., Pazios, T., & Hatziargyriou, N. (2016). Design of axial flux permanent magnet generators using various magnetic materials in locally manufactured small wind turbines. XXIIth International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM’2016), 1545–1551. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICELMACH.2016.7732729