Christos S. Zerefos is Secretary General, Academy of Athens; Climate Envoy for Greece; Head, Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Academy of Athens; Professor Emeritus Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, University of Athens. Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Universities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Visiting Professor, Universities of Minnesota and Boston. Samarbeidspartnere (Scientific Collaborator), University of Oslo. …
Yannis Ioannidis (Ph.D., Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley; MSc, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University; Diploma, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens) is the President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as an Associated Faculty at the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, where he also served …
Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Chair of the Lancet COVID19 Commission, Co-Chair of the UN Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner …
Konstantinos Ziliaskopoulos has an Integrated Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a Marie Curie fellow with the software company Singular Logic and is currently pursuing an MSc degree in the interinstitutional post-graduate program by the National Center for Social Research and U. of Peloponese on …
Durk Krol is Director of the WssTP. He joined the WssTP in 2008, first as a Board Member and Treasurer. He has worked in the water sector at the European level for the last 8 years, initially as a Senior Legal Policy Officer for the water department of provincial government of Friesland (NL). As Deputy …
Alysia Helming is an early pioneer of wind, solar and biofuels in the US. She co-founded, CFO & sold companies with projects >=$6B. Pristine Sun was the largest developer of small utility-scale solar in California. TradeWind Energy, which was sold in 2019, made Enel Green Power one of the largest wind and solar company in …
Elisa Chioatto is a PhD student in Economics and Management of Innovation and Sustainability at the University of Ferrara and part of the Sustainable Development Solution Network (SDSN), Greece.
Gerardo Anzaldúa is a Senior Fellow in the fields of water and biodiversity at Ecologic Institute. His main interests are water management, resource efficiency, biodiversity conservation and adaptation to climate change from an environmental economics perspective. He is a native Spanish speaker, is fluent in English and has good knowledge of German.
Dr Emmanouil (Manolis) Tyllianakis is an environmental economist, currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at the University of Leeds. His work focuses on understanding the socio-economic impact of land/water management decisions and moves along these two research lines: 1) Understanding how human behaviour impacts water ecosystems and human …
Marilena Pollicino is Economic Advisor at Defra (Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs). She received her Ph.D. In Environmental Economics from the University of Catania.
Céline Nauges is research director at the French Institute for Research in Agriculture and Environment (INRAE) and member of the TSE Environmental Economics and Natural Resources thematic group. Her main research interests are in agricultural and environmental economics. Her research, which is mainly applied, has focused on supply and demand management of drinking water in …
He is Dr. in Civil Engineering, head of the Offshore Engineering and Marine Energies research group at the Environmental Hydraulics Institute of the Universidad de Cantabria. He has developed an intense research career, as well as promoted and facilitated the transfer of knowledge and technology through the development of public-private partnership projects in the fields …
Dr. Oliver Adler, is Global Head of Economic Research at Credit Suisse AG. He is in charge of a unit responsible for analyzing and forecasting trends in the global economy. During the past few years, much of his group’s research has been devoted to studying the financial crisis and its role in creating economic and …
Mr Stylianos Mimis is an environmental engineer, holding an MSc degree (2006) in Agriculture and Environment, Department of Environment, University of the Aegean. He is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Since 2014, he is a research associate at the Department of …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0852-5712 Dr. Theofanis Zacharatos is a researcher at the Sustainable Development Unit of the ΑΤΗΕΝΑ Research Center, focusing on bridging science, policy, and innovation to promote sustainable development. His expertise lies in Consumer Behaviour, particularly in food waste, sustainable consumption, and development. Dr. Zacharatos holds an MBA in Food Business Management, an MSc …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3907-2496 Eleni Toli joined the Athena Research team since 2004 and has been involved in the scientific and technical coordination of several EU-funded projects related to ICT in general, and to Research Data Infrastructures, Data Repositories, Open Data and Cloud Computing, with a particular focus on agri-food data and services, digital social innovation, …
Vasilis is the founder of Solmeyea. Solmeyea is a multiply awarded AgriBioTech startup, producing plant-based premium proteins for several food and non-food applications through vertical microalgae farming. Vasilis has 14 years international business experience with a strong focus on Management Consulting, Cost restructuring Projects, Construction Project Management and Agricultural & Environmental Engineering Research focusing on …
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