Evangelos Baltas is a professor in the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens and currently the Director of the Hydrology and Water Resources Development Laboratory. He co-established the Center of Hydrology and Informatics (CHI) constituting the NTUA hydrological/meteorological network, the database of hydrological information, and the experimental basin. He has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of water resource management, water resource system 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 significant 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 (more than 30) competitive EU and nationally funded programs related to integrated water resource management: NDBHMI, HYDROMET, EUROTAS, RIPARIUS, MEDDMAN, ENRICH, EUROHARP, CHESS, etc.