Resume: Dr. George Papaioannou is an Assistant Professor of Forest Hydrology and Mountain River Training and Director of the Mountain River Training and Risk Management Laboratory of the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace (2021-today). He is a visiting Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Postgraduate Programs “Hydraulic Engineering and Environment” and “Hydro-meteorological Disaster Management”. He has participated in thirteen (13) national and European research projects and an adequate number of hydrological and hydraulic studies and water resources management projects. He is a member of national and international scientific and professional associations. He is currently a Guest Editor in Journal Land (MDPI) and served as a guest editor in the journal Hydrology (MDPI). He is a regular reviewer of research papers in international journals. He is the author and co-author of more than ninety (90) referred international journal publications, conference proceedings, books, and technical reports. His published work has received over 1063 citations, as indicated in Google Scholar database search (h-index =15, i10-index =19), and over 703 citations, as indicated in Scopus database search (h-index=12). Dr. Papaioannou has adequate experience in teaching activities in undergraduate (e.g., Hydrology - Hydraulics of Mountainous Watersheds, etc.) and postgraduate courses (e.g., Sustainable Management of Mountainous Watersheds, etc). Finally, he supervises and participates in the examination committees for BSc. Theses, M.Sc. Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations in the fields of Hydrology and Water Resources Management.

SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS

• ï2024. “Post-fire Erosion and Flood prone areas Identification framework – PEFI”. Funding: Special Account for Research Grants DUTH, Programm “Duth to people”. Project Leader: George Papaioannou
• ï2023-2027. “RESIST - Regions for climate change resilience through innovation, science and technology”, (2023-2027), Funding: HORIZON EUROPE 2021-2027, Programm HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility, Project leader: Prof. Antonios Gasteratos. (Member of the research team)
• 2020-2021. “Remote Sensing Procedure for the Estimation of Stream Roughness with Limited Data and Sensitivity Analysis of Flood Modeling with the Use of Various Hydraulic/Hydrodynamic Approaches (1D,2D,1D/2D)”, Greek Ministry of Economics and Development/ Action “Support of Researchers with Emphasis to Young Researchers-Cycle B”, Project leader: Research Director, Dr. Elias Dimitriou (Postdoc-Research Scholarship).

SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Papaioannou, G., Vasiliades, L., & Loukas, A. (2015). Multi-criteria analysis framework for potential flood prone areas mapping. Water Resources Management, 29(2), 399-418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-014-0817-6 
• Papaioannou, G., Loukas, A., Vasiliades, L., & Aronica, G.T. (2016). Flood inundation mapping sensitivity to riverine spatial resolution and modelling approach. Natural Hazards, 83(1), 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2382-1 
• Papaioannou, G., Vasiliades, L., Loukas, A., & Aronica, G.T. (2017). Probabilistic flood inundation mapping at ungauged streams due to roughness coefficient uncertainty in hydraulic modelling. Advances in Geosciences, 44, 23-34. https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-44-23-2017 
• Papaioannou, G., Efstratiadis, A., Vasiliades, L., Loukas, A., Papalexiou, S.M., Koukouvinos, A., Tsoukalas, I., & Kossieris, P. (2018). An operational method for Flood Directive implementation in ungauged urban areas. Hydrology, 5(2), 24. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology5020024 
• Kaffas, K., Papaioannou, G., Varlas, G., al Sayah, M. J., Papadopoulos, A., Dimitriou, E., Katsafados, P., & Righetti, M. (2022). Forecasting soil erosion and sediment yields during flash floods: The disastrous case of Mandra, Greece, 2017. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5344 
• Papaioannou, G., Markogianni, V., Loukas, A., & Dimitriou, E. (2022). Remote Sensing Methodology for Roughness Estimation in Ungauged Streams for Different Hydraulic/Hydrodynamic Modeling Approaches. Water, 14(7), 1076. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14071076 
• Papaioannou, G., Alamanos, A., Maris, F. (2023). Evaluating Post-Fire Erosion and Flood Protection Techniques: A Narrative Review of Applications. GeoHazards, 4, 380-405. https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards4040022 
• Alamanos, A., Papaioannou, G., Varlas, G., Markogianni, V., Papadopoulos, A., Dimitriou, E. (2024). Representation of a Post-Fire Flash-Flood Event Combining Meteorological Simulations, Remote Sensing, and Hydraulic Modeling. Land , 13, 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13010047