Maria Mimikou

Maria Mimikou is Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Director of the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources Management of NTUA. She has founded the Centre for Hydrology and Informatics (CHI). She has vast academic and research experience (over 40 years) in the areas of integrated water resources management, water resources systems planning and operation, urban, rural and coastal hydrology, stochastic hydrology, hydrologic 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, as well as water scarcity and drought analysis. She has written several books, authored or co- uthored more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and more than 90 peer-reviewed publications in national and international conferences, and she has published several scientific technical reports. She also has a long academic and non-academic administrative experience. She has served as Director of the Hydrology Section of the Greek Public Power Corporation. She has served as Dean of the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA, Director of the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program Water resources Science and Technology. She has an extensive experience in the management of research programs, as she has been scientific responsible and administrator of EU competitive research programs of total NTUA funding around 5.300.000€, as well as coordinator and scientific responsible of other EU competitive programs of total funding around 8.900.000€. Selected projects include: MARS, EPI-Water, i-adapt, Nomoteleia, SPI-Water, OpenMI-Life, FLADAR, MEDDMAN, FLOODMED, ENRICH, EUROHARP, CHESS. She is a senior consultant of EEA (European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine Waters) on Water quantity data, accounts and indicators and resource efficiency. She has provided support to WFD CIS WG Data and Information Sharing and participated in the EU-WFD WGs. She has also served as a member of External Advisory Groups for DG Research. She is actively involved in the implementation of WFD and FD in Greece and has served as consultant for several Greek Ministries. Furthermore, she participates in European networks of water experts (EurAqua, JPI Water, WssTP, EXCIFF, etc.). She has established the Greek academic network on Hydrology and Water Resources “HYDROMEDON” and she has been scientific responsible for the development of the Greek Meteorological and Hydrological Database.
Phone: +302107722878
Address: Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources Management
School of Civil Engineering, NTUA
5, Iroon Polytechneiou Str 15780, Athens, Greece