Dr. Papadopoulou is Professor and Director of Laboratory of Physical Geography and Environmental Impacts at the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering (SRSGE), National Technical University of Athens. Since 2017, she is Deputy Dean at the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering (SRSGE), NTUA.

In June 2020, she was appointed as President of the Management Board of Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency (NECCA), a Legal Entity of Private Law supervised by the Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy. The aim of NECCA is to implement the policy set by the Ministry of Environment and Energy for (i) the management of protected areas in Greece, the conservation of biodiversity and (ii) the promotion and implementation of actions for sustainable development actions and climate change.

Prof. Papadopoulou currently serves as a member of the National Water Council and the National Committee on Climate Change. In April 2020, she won – as part of the Sewers4COVID – the 1st prize on Pan-European EUvsVirus Hackathon by introducing an Integrating sewer surveillance and machine learning for an early warning on pandemic outbreaks, emergency response and recovery decision making in a timely and cost-effective manner solution to support European and global community in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak.

Prof. Papadopoulou graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras (1998) and she holds a Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont USA (2002). She served as a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete (2003-2007). Her principal research interests lie in the areas of subsurface water resources modeling and management, climate change adaptation, water and carbon footprint in agricultural and food industry sector, water-energy-food-climate Nexus. From 2007 to 2009, she has served as consultant in Ministry of Rural Development and Food being responsible for the monitoring of projects funded by the EU in the framework of the Community Initiative LEADER +.  She has participated in many EU, USA and national funded research projects. She has written more than 60 research papers in scientific journals and international conference proceedings. She serves as an independent evaluator for EU-funded (FP7, H2020, PRIMA) and national projects, as a reviewer in several scientific journals and she is member of national and international scientific societies.

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Akrivi Leka holds a Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from NTUA, 1998.

She also holds a Master Degree in ‘Environment and Development’ (NTUA, 2000), a Master Degree in “Environmental Resource Management” (Brandenburg Technical University, Germany, 2004) and a PhD from NTUA (2012) in Urban Sustainability (“Environmental Sustainability in Urban Small and Medium-sized Coastal Cities – Approach to Environmental Indicators”).

Since September 2007, she has been lecturing at the Dept. of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA in undergraduate and graduate level. Presently, she is a senior researcher at NTUA, while she also works as a freelancer in Surveying and Environmental Management Projects.

She owns a specific license for conducting Environmental Impact Assessment Projects (EIAP) in private and public sector (2003) and she is the author of a number of EIAPs. She has participated in a number of national and international conferences, and she has also published her work in scientific national and international journals and conferences.

Research interests: Environmental Planning in Urban and Sub-urban level, Sustainable Urban and Regional Development and Policy, Environmental Policy, Development of Environmental Indicator Systems for monitoring and managing the quality of Urban and Sub-urban Environment, Resiliency in Urban and Sub Urban level, Climate Change Adaptation Planning.

Dimitris Papakonstantinou holds a PhD in Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a Diploma of Rural and Surveying Engineering at the NTUA.

Since 1981 he has been a coordinator and professional engineer of topographic and photogrammetric surveys, cadaster surveys, spatial and development plans, environmental planning designs, promotion and protection of natural and cultural resources and management plans of protected areas.

He is a Consultant in the field of tourism for management of tourist and cultural resources and destinations, implementing new Information and Communication Technologies.

Standing member, in the final degree, of Laboratory Teaching Staff of School of Rural and Surveying Engineering (SRSE) at NTUA. Teaches in the undergraduate courses “Natural Geography and Environment”, “Applications in Management of Natural Resources”, “Environmental Impact Assessment” and “Environmental Planning”.

Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Natural Geography and Environmental Impact Assessment of the SRSE at NTUA, since its establishment.

Since 2009 he has been a co-lecturer of the postgraduate course “Methods and Techniques of Environmental Impact Assessment – Special issues of Natural Resources Management” in the Postgraduate Program “Geoinformatics” of SRSE at NTUA.

He is the Scientific Director of the project for the institutionalization of the Parrhasian Heritage Park as a Protected Landscape area. He is a member (esp. Vice President for the last three years) of the Parrhasian Heritage Foundation, USA.

His research interests are: management of natural and cultural resources, management of protected areas, environmental planning, sustainable tourism development and new technologies, the impact of projects and programs on the environment. He has published his work in several journals and has participated in many conferences.

Odysseas Sifounakis is an Agronomist (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTh) specialized in Agricultural Engineering and Environment.

He holds a BSc, MSc in Land Reclamation, Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering (AUTh) and an MSc in Hydrology (Utrecht University, NL).

He is a PhD candidate and member of the Laboratory of Physical Geography and Environmental Impact and his research interest is focused on the Assessment of the environmental impact of agriculture on a large scale and under climate change conditions, in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research – Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Germany.

He has gained teaching experience by participating in the courses of “Physical Geography and Environment” and “Environmental Impact Assessment”. He is involved in European research and technology projects and participates as an evaluator and monitor in EC programs in the fields of Agriculture and Environment. He has worked on national projects aiming at the estimation of the GHG emissions from agriculture but, also, the abatement of certain air pollutants’ emissions.

In parallel, he is participating in interpretation and translation activities and has collaborated with the National Finnish Broadcasting Network. He is a member of the Geotechnical Chamber of Greece (GEOT.E.E).

He speaks English (C2), Dutch (B1) and French (A2).

Despoina Charchousi obtained her Diploma in Civil Engineering and a Master of Sciences Degree in “Water Resources Science and Technology” from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2012 and 2014, respectively.

Since 2015, she has participated in several European and national research projects implemented by NTUA.

Since 2016, she is a PhD candidate at NTUA. Her thesis’s title is “Assessment of Groundwater Footprint (GF) concept as an index for optimal groundwater resources management in regions affected by climate change in the Mediterranean”.

Her research interests focus on sustainable management of water resources, climate change and its impacts on water resources, water footprint and multi-criteria analysis in environmental decision-making.

Kosmas Stampoulidis is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Regional Planning – School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering (SRSGE) of the NTUA, in the thematic area: “Investigation of the Effects of Climatic Change on Wildfires’ Phenomenon by Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics (GIS) Methods – Management and Decision-Making Strategies for the Greek Territory”.

His main degree is at the “Department of Digital Systems” of the University of Piraeus. He holds two Master of Science Degrees (MSc) at NTUA – “Environment and Development” and at the University of Piraeus – “e-Learning”.

He has also graduated from the Hellenic Fire Officers School of the Hellenic Fire Academy and he serves in the Hellenic Fire Service in the Department of Informatics and Communications.

His research interests are related to the observation and simulation of forest fire behavior, the impact of climate change on the natural and man-made environment, the research for methods and techniques of environmental protection.

George Faidon Papakonstantinou is a graduate from the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment of the School of Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Moreover he is PhD candidate of the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering (SRSGE) of the National Technical University of Athens.

Since 2015 he has been studying issues of geoenvironment, geological field research, geological mapping, geological hazard investigation, protection of natural and cultural heritage sites, management of protected areas.

He has been participating in the study group for the institutionalization of the Parrhasian Heritage Park as a Protected Landscape and in the activities of the Summer School of the Parrhasian Heritage Foundation.

Since 2019 and as a PhD candidate, he is member of the teaching team referring to the subjects: “Applications in Natural Resources Management” and “Environmental Impact Assessment”, SRSE at NTUA.

He is a research fellow of the Laboratory of Natural Geography and Environmental Impact of SRSE at NTUA.

A member of the Hellenic Geological Society and the Hellenic Society of Geographic Information Systems, HellasGI.

Panagiotis Tsampikos Koliotsis obtained a Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering and a Master of Science in “Urban and Regional Planning” from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2017 and 2020, respectively.

Since 2021, he is a PhD candidate at the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens in the thematic area: “Investigation of the impacts of noise pollution in urban environments on patients with Hypertension”.

His academic and research interests focus on the quality of life in urban areas, spatial analysis of urban greenspace, analysis of geospatial data and time series, as well as environmental pollution and its consequential impact on human health.

Dorothea Dimitriou holds a diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineer from NTUA, 1981.

She is a professional engineer of topographic and photogrammetric maps. She is specialized in urban spatial planning and cadaster as well as in plans for sustainable tourism development of areas, special environmental studies, and promotion of natural and cultural resources and landscapes.

She is project and content manager of studies for the promotion of cultural, touristic resources, landscapes and destinations.

She is standing member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff of the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering (SRSE) of National Technical University of Athens, in the final degree.

She has extensive teaching experience referring to undergraduate courses of the SRSE NTUA.

More specifically the courses taught are: “Geography and Spatial Analysis”, “Natural Geography and Environment”, “Applications in Natural Resources Management”, “Environmental Impact Assessment” and “Environmental Planning”.

She is a Research Fellow of the Laboratory of Natural Geography and Environmental Impact Assessment, SRSE of the NTUA since its foundation.

Since 2015, she is a special advisor for the designation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park area, as a Protected Landscape.

Dr. Chrysaida-Aliki Papadopoulou is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the National Technical University of Athens.

She received her Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering (2008), her MSc in Geoinformatics (2011) and her PhD from the National Technical University of Athens (2017).

Her Doctoral thesis focuses on the development of a Decision Support System aiming at the management of spatial decisions through the incorporation of artificial intelligence and visualization methodologies.

Since 2008 she works as a researcher and she has been involved in several National and EU projects. From 2008 to 2015 she was working as a teaching assistant at the National Technical University of Athens.

She also works as a freelancer. Her research interests include: Spatial Decision Support Systems, Spatial planning and Sustainable Development, Smart Cities, GIS/web-GIS technologies, Geoinformatics, Spatial models, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. She has published several articles in international journals and conference proceedings.

She speaks English, French and Italian.

Youla Douma is an experienced linguist who works in the Education Support Services sector of the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering.

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the field of Philology with a specialization in Linguistics, and holds a Master of Studies Degree from the University of Oxford.

At the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, she is responsible for the development of educational material, management and coordination of project case studies, drafting of progress reports, organization of dynamic laboratories (living labs), linguistic curation, presentation and dissemination of results, texts editing and translations.

She speaks English (C2 level) and French (C2 level).

Vasiliki Iakovou is a graduate of the University of Piraeus (former Department of Technology & Production Systems, now Department of Industrial Management & Technology).

She has 25 years of professional experience in the technical and managerial support of projects, systems, and applications in the field of Information Technology and Communications, having worked on multiple related subjects in OTE Group.

As a scientific associate at the School of Rural, Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineering (SRSGE) she works within the context of the NEXOGENESIS research project. At the same time, she provides technical support to the website of SRSGE, the website of the Laboratory of Physical Geography and Environmental Impacts Assessment. Also, she supports the School Secretary regarding Information Technology issues.