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Dr Christos Makropoulos is a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and an adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is the co-Editor in Chief of Urban Water Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hydroinformatics and the Editorial Board of Water. Dr Makropoulos is an expert in hydroinformatic tools and methods for urban water management with an emphasis on distributed urban water infrastructure, critical infrastructure protection and whole cyber-physical system modelling for digital twins. His work addresses issues of resilience, risk and security analysis, uncertainty quantification, multi-objective evolutionary optimization, decision support, long-term policy scenario development and system stress-testing. He has authored more than 180 journal and conference papers, as well as several book chapters and he is a co-author of the international textbook ‘Urban Drainage’. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the OpenMI Association.