Dr. Achilleas G. Samaras is Assistant Professor of Maritime Hydraulics, Port and Harbour Engineering, at the Department of Civil Engineering in Democritus University of Thrace. He holds a Civil Engineering Diploma (AUTh, 2005), a M.Sc. degree in Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development (AUTh, 2006) and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (AUTh, 2010). He has 15 years of experience in research and engineering practice in the fields of wave dynamics and hydrodynamics in marine and coastal areas, sediment transport and coastal morphodynamics, design of coastal protection works and environmentally friendly methods, as well as in the dynamics of watershed-coast systems, focusing on the numerical modelling of the above. He has participated in more than 15 research projects and special consultancy projects financed by national (Greece, Italy) and EU funds. He has published more than 50 papers in scientific journals and conferences on related subjects.