User Profile profile for takis.oikonomou

Panagiotis holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in the field of Water Resources Planning and Management from Colorado State University. He was a postdoctoral scholar for two years at Colorado Water Center, Colorado State University, before joining the Vermont EPSCoR. Prior to his graduate studies in the USA, he received an M.Sc. in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of the Aegean, and a B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering, majoring in water resources, from the Agricultural University of Athens. Panagiotis has participated in several water-related funded research projects in the United States and the European Union. His research interests include extreme hydrologic events, hydroinformatics (big data, applied statistics, models, GIS, and decision support systems), integrated water resource management, and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. His main focus as part of the BREE project is computational modeling of extreme events in coupled natural and human systems.