Baltas Evangelos A. - Hydrology and water resource systems analysis

MARIA A. MIMIKOU

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

EVANGELOS A. BALTAS

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

VASSILIOS A. TSIHRINTZIS

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

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To my husband Yiannis and my daughter Alexandra for their support

Maria Mimikou

To my family

Evangelos Baltas

In memory of my parents Andreas and Evangelia to whom I owe everything.

To my wife Alexandra and my two sons Andreas and Konstantinos for their support, encouragement and patience

Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis

The overall goal is to provide students and practitioners with a complete and comprehensive guidebook on hydrological and water resources issues by facilitating their understanding of basic and theoretical knowledge and concepts through a significant number of examples. We believe that this book will contribute to the education of undergraduate and graduate students who attend classes related to hydrology and water resources and will provide better insights to scientists, technicians, practitioners and professional engineers regarding integrated approaches in hydrological processes.

Dr. Maria A. Mimikou is a professor in the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and director of the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Athens, Greece. She established the Center of Hydrology and Informatics (CHI) (www.chi.civil.ntua.gr). She has vast experience (35 years) in the areas of water resources management; water resources systems planning and operation; urban, rural and coastal hydrology; stochastic hydrology; hydrological and water quality modelling; soil erosion and sediment transport; climate change and land use change at the catchment scale; flood forecasting; risk assessment and mapping and water scarcity and drought analysis. She has written several books and has authored or co-authored more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in national and international conferences, in addition to several scientific technical reports. Dr. Mimikou coordinates several undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the School of Civil Engineering (NTUA) and has supervised 90 graduate diplomas and postgraduate theses. She has vast academic and non-academic administrative experience. She has served as director of the Hydrology Section of the Public Power Corporation. She has served as dean of the School of Civil Engineering (NTUA) and director of the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. She is experienced in the management of research programs and has been scientifically responsible for and administrator of many European competitive research programs and has been a coordinator of and scientifically responsible for other International competitive programs (http://mimikou.chi.civil.ntua.gr/). Also, she has served as a member of the External Advisory Groups in DG Research, as chairman and member of steering and organizing committees in several conferences, as a member of different European scientific networks like EurAqua, EXCIFF, etc. and has contributed to position papers for the Water Framework Directive, Horizon 2020, Water Science Policy Interfacing. She established the national academic network on hydrology and water resources HYDROMEDON.

Dr. Evangelos A. Baltas is a professor in the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece. He actively participated in the establishment of the Center of Hydrology and Informatics (CHI) in Athens, which comprises the NTUA meteorological network, the database of the hydrological information and the experimental basin. He has more than 25 years experience in the areas of water resources management, water resources systems planning and operation, hydrometeorology, hydrological modelling, climate change and land use change at the catchment scale, flood forecasting, risk assessment and mapping analysis. He has written several books and has authored or co-authored more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in national and international conferences, in addition to a number of technical reports. He has supervised more than 60 undergraduate and postgraduate theses and has extensive academic and non-academic administrative experience. He has also offered engineering consultation services in the fields of his expertise to the EU, Greek ministries, public organizations and private companies in the United States and Europe. He has been the principal investigator or researcher in competitive EU (more than 30) and nationally funded programs related to integrated water resources management. He also served as a secretary general for the Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works from 2006 to 2009. During that period, he was appointed as a Greek delegate to a number of councils at a ministerial level in the European Union, UNESCO, OECD and the United Nation for issues concerning environmental legislation, climate change, renewable energy water resources, etc.