Professor in Sustainable Water Resources Management, University of Thessaly, School of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment, Head of Laboratory of Ecohydraulics & Inland Water Management. He completed his PhD studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Simulation and Optimization Models in Water Resources Management. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (2011 - 2012) and Sabbatical Leave at the University of Michigan. He has been awarded by the Academy of Athens for his book titled "Ecohydraulics". He led projects funded by the Public Power Corporation of Greece. He has published more than 100 papers in Journals and Conference Proceedings, as well as Special Editions and Books. He has already supervised 4 PhD Students who have fulfiled their PhD studies (one of them is currently a professor at the Univ. of King Abdulaziz SA) and is supervising 2 more. Research Interests: sustainable water resources management; monitoring of water resources; ecohydrology; ecohydraulids; extreme hydrological phenomena (flash floods and flash droughts)