Yiannis is the Research Line Leader and the coordinator of Secondary Resources for Engineered Material (SREMat) research group at MTM (https://www.mtm.kuleuven.be/Onderzoek/sremat/). Yiannis is work package leader or project coordinator in approximately 10 projects dealing with the valorisation of bauxite residue (red mud), slags from ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, and vitrified residues from municipal solid wastes, ranging from fundamental to competitive work and from bilateral Flemish ones, to multi-actor international projects. Yiannis and the SREMat group have an expertise on ceramic, cement and inorganic polymer (geopolymer) processing from binder to full scale prototypes.