Dr. Dimitrios Emmanouloudis is a Professor at Department of Forestry and Natural Environment of IHU, Greece. He is the director of the Laboratory of Mountainous Water Management and Control & of Laboratory of Geology and Petrography. He holds a PhD degree in Forest Engineering from the Forestry Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1990) while he also made post doctoral research at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, on erosion measurement techniques (2003). He is a Forester-Hydrologist with specialized knowledge on estimating the degradation of soils by erosion, the prevention of natural disasters on natural land ecosystems as well as in the study of factors that impact natural disasters using modern technologies. He is the main author or co-author of four books: («Evolution, Monitoring, Simulation, Management and Remediation of the Geological Environment and Landscape», WITpress Southampton, Boston, «Preventing, Monitoring and Confronting Debris Flow phenomena» WITpress Southampton, Boston, «Environmental Education Courses with Emphasis on Rhodopes Complex», Emattech, Euro-Mediterranean Torrents: Case Studies on Tools that can Improve their Management, Nova Publishers USA). He was also the coordinator of 12 international projects financed from International organizations like E.U., UNESCO, Hellenicaid etc. The total budget of the above mentioned projects is over 5.000.000 Euros. He has more than 60 publications, in various international journals with SCI index, congresses and conferences. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review (Jestr) and of many scientific organizations including International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), Inernational Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Ιnternational Comission on Continental Erosion (ICCE), International Committee on Tracers (ICT), International Association of Hydraulic (IAHR) and European Water Research Association (EWRA). He holds also the titleof “Ingeniero de Montes de Honor”, appointed from Universidad Politechnica de Madrid (2011). Recently (June of 2016), appointed by UNESCO as Chair Holder of UNESCO chair CON-E-ECT, which is dealing with “Conservation and Ecotourism of Riparian and Deltaic Systems
