**Athanasios Loukas**

Prof. Dr. Athanasios Loukas is Full Professor of Engineering Hydrology—Water Resources Management and Development in the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the Director of the Master Program "Water Resources" (2018-today). He has served as Director of Transportation and Hydraulic Engineering Department (2019–2021). He is a visiting professor at Colorado State University (U.S.A.) and University of Grenoble Alpes. He has received many academic awards in his professional and academic career, such as the Fulbright Research Scholarship.

He is Section Editor-in-Chief of the MDPI *Water* journal (Section of Water Resources Management, Policy, and Governance) and Editor-in-Chief of EWRA *European Water* journal and Editorial Board Member of Water Resources Management and Scientific Review Engineering and Environmental Sciences journals. He is an active reviewer for many international journals in the fields of hydrology, water resources management, GIS and remote sensing applications, environmental modelling and managemen<sup>t</sup> and others.

His research interests include: deterministic and stochastic hydrological modelling, analysis, modelling, and forecasting of extreme hydrological events (floods and droughts), climate change impacts on the hydrological processes and water resources, water resources managemen<sup>t</sup> and modelling, and applications of GIS and remote sensing in hydrology and water resources. He has coordinated and participated in many national and European research projects. He is the reviewer and evaluator of National, International and European research proposals. He supervised and still supervises a large number of undergraduate diploma theses, Master theses and Ph.D. dissertations. He has delivered many keynote speeches and invited talks.

Prof. Loukas is the author and co-author of more than 400 referred international journal publications, conference proceedings publications, and technical reports. His published work has received over 2200 citations, as indicated in the Scopus database with h-index = 29 and over 4200 citations, as indicated in the Google Scholar database (h-index = 36, i10-index = 67).
