He is a graduate of the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a PhD in the field of "Mountain Water Management" from the same School. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he received the honorary distinction of "Ingeniero de Montes de Honor". He has been a Full Professor at the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment of Drama since 2008. He served as Vice President of International and European Affairs at the Technological Educational Institute of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (TEI EMTh) from 2008 to 2017 and as Vice-Rector of the same Institution from 2017 to 2019. He has coordinated thirty-one (31) International and National competitive Research Programs to date and has served as Director of the Postgraduate Program "Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean" and the MSc Program "Human and Water", while he is also the Director of the Interdepartmental MSc Program "Analysis and Management of Human-induced and Natural Disasters", jointly implemented by the Democritus University of Thrace and the Hellenic Fire Service. Since 2016, he has held the UNESCO Chair on Management and Protection of Coastal and Deltaic Ecosystems, since 2019 he has been the Director of the Laboratory "Hydrometeorological Disasters and Climate Change Monitoring" at the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment of the Democritus University of Thrace, and since 2021 he has been the Director of the Established Research Laboratory for Analysis and Management of Human-induced and Natural Disasters – ASSIST, which as of March 13, 2024, belongs to the Democritus University of Thrace. His published work includes fourteen (14) books and more than two hundred and fifty (250) research papers.