Academic Achievements

2012                ASCE Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

2008        Award from the Technical Chamber of Greece for graduating 1st from the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace during the undergraduate study

2008                iEMSs Society’s Student Paper Commendation for excellent paper and presentation

2008                Old Centralian’s Trust postgraduate travel award to iEMSs 2008 conference

2008                British Hydrological Society travel award to EGU hydrological conference

2007                British Hydrological Society travel award to CEMEPE hydrological conference

2005            Highest graduation marks among graduates in the Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

2000 - 2005       Annual awards and scholarships from the Greek National Scholarship Foundation

 

Invited Lectures and Presentations

  • “International workshop on Hydro-meteorological modelling and forecasting”, 9-10 December 2015, Invited Speaker, organized by the Norwegian Hydrological Institute, Lillehammer, Norway

  • “International workshop on Changes in Water Resources and Adaptation options in the upper Ganges region”, 16-17 November 2015, Lecturer, organized by the Indian National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India

  • “Big Data Analysis in Earth Sciences”, 31-4 September 2015, Invited Lecturer at EarthBiAS 2015 International Summer School, organized by the University of Aegean and the Global Network for Environmental Science and Technology (GNEST), Rhodes, Greece

  • “SMHI’s goals for seasonal hydrological forecasting at the pan-European scale and Sweden”, Invited Guest Author in the HEPEX blog, 5 December 2014, https://hepex.irstea.fr/smhis-goals-for-seasonal-hydrological-forecasting-at-the-pan-european-scale-and-sweden/

  • “Summer course on hydrological modelling at the pan-European scale”, 29-30 July 2014, Lecturer, organized by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrköping, Sweden

  • “Big Data Analysis in Earth Sciences”, 7-11 July 2014, Invited Lecturer at EarthBiAS 2014 International Summer School, organized by the University of Aegean and the Global Network for Environmental Science and Technology (GNEST), Rhodes, Greece

  • “The India-HYPE project focus”, 31 October 2012, Invited Speaker - presented at the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India

  • “Analysis and Simulation of Environmental Systems”, 4-22 June 2012, Invited Lecturer at MAENDI 2012 International Summer School, organized by the University of Aegean, Samos, Greece

  • “Diagnostic Model Evaluation and the Use of Entropy as a Model Diagnostic in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling”, May 2010, Invited Speaker, organized by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

  • “Effects of Spatial Rainfall on Floods: New Insights”, February 2010, Invited Speaker, organized by the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

     

Professional Affiliations

    European Geophysical Union (EGU)    

    American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Environmental Modelling and Software Society (EMS)

    British Hydrological Society (BHS)

    Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)

    Technical Chamber of Greece

    European Water Association (EWA)