Dr. Dimitrios E. Alexakis is Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece. Dr. Alexakis studied Geology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-NKUA (1996) and continued with a postgraduate course in “Geochemical Environmental Pollution” (NKUA, 1998). He has completed a Doctoral Thesis in the Department of Geology in the field of Environmental Geochemistry (NKUA, 2002). Dr. Alexakis’s research interests focus mainly on the following scientific fields: Monitoring and evaluation of the quality of soil and water resources by applying geochemical and geological methods, Monitoring and evaluation of geotechnical parameters, Environmental geotechnics, Investigation of the impacts of natural disasters on the quality of soil and water resources, Assurance and protection of the quality of soil and water resources, Management of soil and water resources, Geochemistry and environmental geochemistry, Aquatic geochemistry, Geochemical modelling and geochemical surveying, Vulnerability and risk assessment of groundwater resources, Soil bioremediation technologies, Monitoring and evaluation of anthropogenic and climate changes and impacts on soil and water resources.