Professor Anastasios I. Stamou

Professor at the Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School of Civil Engineering, in “Computational Methods in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and in the Design of Environmental Hydraulic Works”. Dr. Civil Engineer with studies at NTUA, Imperial College of Science and Technology and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Since 2012, he is Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) having received a series of distinctions (e.g. TUM Agenda Lehre–Gastprofessuren, DAAD Gastdozenten – Programm, Honorary Fellow of TUM Institute for Advanced Study, August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor Excellence Initiative). He is Director of the Laboratory of Applied Hydraulics, Director of the Interdepartmental Master’s Programme “Water Resources Science and Technology”, member of the Leadership Team of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), member of the Hellenic Council for Public Works (Department of Studies) and member of many NTUA Committees. He has been Vice Dean at the School of Civil Engineering (2008-2013).

He has 37-years teaching, research and technological experience in the development and application of integrated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models to water resources management problems, such as hydraulic works, water/wastewater treatment works, coastal works, environmental fluid dynamics, eco-hydraulics, and climate change effects.

He was the project leader (PL) of 30 research projects, participated in another 20 projects and authored or co-authored more than 280 publications (citations=1709, h-index=19) and 300 technical reports. He has taught in many postgraduate programmes in Greece and abroad. He is member of international scientific organizations and reviewer of more than 35 journals, 40 conferences and many international research programmes. He has participated as consultant and/or project coordinator in more than 120 studies. Within DarWEN, he is the scientific director of NTUA and a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the project.

Professor Evangelos Baltas

Evangelos Baltas is a Professor in the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. He co-established the Center of Hydrology and Informatics (CHI) constituting of the NTUA meteorological network, the database of the hydrological information and the experimental basin. He has more than 30 years experience in the areas of water resources management, water resources systems planning and operation, hydrometeorology, hydrological modeling, climate change and land use change at the catchment scale, flood forecasting, risk assessment and mapping analysis. He has written three books and has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and more than 120 peer-reviewed publications in national and international conferences, while he has published several scientific technical reports. He has a large academic and nonacademic administrative experience. He has also offered engineering consultant services in the fields of his expertise to the EU, Greek Ministries, public organizations and private companies. He has been the principal investigator or researcher in numerous competitive EU (more than 30) and national funded programs related to the integrated water resources management: NDBHMI, HYDROMET, EUROTAS, RIPARIUS, MEDDMAN, ENRICH, EUROHARP, CHESS, ETC.

Professor Christos Makropoulos

Dr Christos Makropoulos (m) is a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is the co-Editor in Chief of “Urban Water Journal” and a member of the Editorial Boards of the “Journal of Hydroinformatics” and of the Journal “Water”. Dr Makropoulos is an expert in hydro-informatic tools and methods for urban water management with an emphasis on distributed urban water infrastructure and whole system modelling. His work addresses issues of resilience and risk analysis, uncertainty quantification, multi-objective evolutionary optimization, decision support and long-term policy scenario development and system stress-testing. He has authored more than 200 journal and conference papers, as well as several book chapters and he is a co-author of the international textbook ‘Urban Drainage’. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the OpenMI Association. He has worked on several FP7 and H2020 projects as WP leader and coordinator.

Assistant Professor Aikaterini Nanou-Giannarou

Civil Engineer, graduate of NTUA with specialization in Hydraulic Engineering and Ph. D. (Doctorate) awarded by NTUA, School of Civil Engineering, Department of Water Resources, Hydraulics and Maritime Engineering.

She has served the School of Civil Engineering, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, as a faculty member of the Laboratory of Applied Hydraulics, as a scientific researcher, then as a lecturer and as an assistant professor, for 42 years in total till September 2021.
Her research activities focused in the fields of hydraulics and environmental hydraulics, with emphasis given on groundwater hydrology and hydraulics of groundwater, fate and transport of pollutants in groundwater aquifers and interaction of surface waters and groundwater, in the experimental field and mathematical modeling.

Member of international and Greek scientific organizations (International Association for Hydraulic Research IAHR, European Water Resources Association EWRA, Hellenic Committee for the Management of Water Resources EEDYP, Hellenic Hydrotechnical Society), member of the Special Scientific Committee of Hydraulics and Water Resources of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) and Board Member of the Hellenic Committee for the Management of Water Resources (EEDYP).

She has been the leader or key-prtcipant in many research projects and has has worked together with the Universities and Technical Universities Stuttgart University, Technical University of Braunschweig and University of Cardiff. She has been the author or co-author of about 60 published works, among which publications in international and Greek journals and conference proceedings, scientific technical reports and books or chapters in books.

Dr. Aristideis Bloutsos

Aristideis A. Bloutsos holds a Diploma (2004) in Civil Engineering, a MSc (2005) and a PhD (2012) from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Patras. He has 15 years of teaching experience (TEI of Patras, ASPAITE, UNIWA) in courses such as Hydraulics, Hydraulics & Flood Works, Environmental and Underground Hydraulics, etc. During the aforementioned teaching experience, he has written lecturer notes for each module. He is also a member of the Open University of Greece (EAP). He has participated in research projects related to water and air quality monitoring, applied hydraulics, liquid and gaseous wastewater disposal and flood assessment under climate change conditions. His research interests focus on the investigation of turbulent buoyant jets and the measurement of water and air quality. He is the author or co-author of 14 publications in international journals, 36 publications in conference proceedings, 15 Technical Studies and 1 book.

Dr. Miltiadis Gymnopoulos

Miltiadis Gymnopoulos holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2011), a MSc from AUTH (2012) and a PhD from University of Lisbon (2018). He has 5-year research experience in Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil (Portugal) as an Early-Stage Researcher (Marie Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2013, EU) and in National Technical University of Athens as a postdoctoral researcher. His research interests are focused on compound-channel flows in rivers and streams during flood events and their effect on structures and vegetation, and on hydraulics of water-supply networks. He is the author or co-author of 2 publications in international journals and 4 publications in conference proceedings.

PhD Cand. Georgios Mitsopoulos

Georgios Mitsopoulos is a Civil and Mechanical Engineer holding a Civil Engineering Diploma from Patras University and a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Piraeus University of Applied Sciences (PUAS), currently University of West Attica, and MScs in Computational Mechanics and Water Resources Science and Technology from the National Technical University of Athens. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at National Technical University of Athens (Laboratory of Applied Hydraulics), honoured by the State Scholarship Foundation with a full scholarship. His research interests extend to the development and application of 1D, 2D and 3D mathematical models in applied hydraulics, environmental fluid mechanics and water management. So far, his research experience is validated by participating in 4 research projects and by the publication of 4 and 7 peer reviewed Journal and Conference papers respectively. He is a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Applied Hydraulics.

PhD Cand. Sofia Skroufouta

Sofia Skroufouta is a junior researcher and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Water Resources and Environment in the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She received her diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from NTUA in 2018 and her M.Sc. in Water Resources Science & Technology from NTUA in 2020. Her research activity is concentrated on the fields of water resources management, hydrology, renewable energy, data analysis and processing, as well as stochastic optimization of hybrid systems. She has three co-authored articles in scientific journals and one co-authored publication and one poster in scientific conferences.

PhD Cand. Panagiotis Dimas

Civil Engineer holding a MAS in Hydrology from ETH Zurich. Interested in innovative technologies, having strong analytical, computational, and interpersonal skills. He has more than 5 years of both industry & research experience in the design and modeling of medium to large-scale civil engineering projects. The main fields of experience are flood resilience, rainfall-runoff modeling, irrigation schemes, roadway drainage, foul sewerage, network modelling, geospatial applications and hydrology. He also has strong IT skills (programming level) and significant experience in the development of design automation applications (Civil 3D API, python, VBA). Dimas is chartered engineer in Greece.

PhD Cand. Dionysios Nikolopoulos

Dionysios Nikolopoulos is a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources Management of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and an Editorial Officer of the Urban Water Journal. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering and a M.Sc. in Water Resources Science and Technology from NTUA, and currently is a PhD Candidate at NTUA. As a researcher he has worked in various European and national programs (including STOP-IT, IMPETUS, PEARL, IWIDGET, DESSIN, NextGen). His PhD research focuses on resilience assessment of urban water cyber-physical systems and modelling urban water systems as cyber-physical systems. Specifically, his current research concerns: (a) the resilience of decentralized and distributed water systems in a source-to-tap manner under long term uncertainty, and (b) the coupling of cyber control and monitoring systems to the physical layer of urban water systems and assess them against cyber-physical attacks. Regarding his published work, he has authored one book section, 10 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and 25 publications in international conferences.