2010: Ph.D.: Depatment of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete
2005: M.Sc.: Depatment of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete
2002: Diploma of Mineral Resources Engineering, Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, Technical University of Crete
Research Interests
Water and climate
Hydrological and earth system modelling
Hydroclimatic Extremes
Weather and climate services
Integrated management of water resources
Participation in Research Programs and Projects
REACT4MED: Inclusive Outscaling of Agro-ecosystem REstoration ACTions for the MEDiterranean. Topic 1.1.1-2021(RIA) Sustainable soil and water management for combating land degradation and desertification and promoting ecosystem restoration, PRIMA (2022-2025).
STREAM: STREAM-SusTainable REservoir mAnagement in water-stressed Mediterranean areas (2021-2023). Prince Albert II Foundation.
PROCLIAS: Process-based models for climate impact attribution across sectors. COST Action (2020 – 2024).
FIRElinks: Fire in the Earth System: Science and Society. COST Action (11/2019 – 10/2023)
Selected Recent Publications
Thiery W., Lange S., Rogelj J., Schleussner C-F., Gudmundsson L., Seneviratne S.I., Andrijevic M., Frieler K., Emanuel K., Geiger T., Bresch D., Zhao F., Willner S.N., Büchner M., Volkholz V., Bauer N., Chang J., Ciais P., Dury M., François L., Grillakis M., Gosling S.N., Hanasaki N., Hickler T., Huber V., Ito A., Jägermeyr J., Khabarov N., Koutroulis A., Liu W., Lutz W., Mengel M., Müller C., Ostberg S., Reyer C., Stacke T., Wada Y. Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes. Science. 2021; science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/
Satoh, Y., Shiogama, H., Hanasaki, N., Pokhrel, Y., Boulange, J.E.S., Burek, P., Gosling, S.N., Grillakis, M., Koutroulis, A., Schmied, H.M. and Thiery, W., 2021. A quantitative evaluation of the issue of drought definition: a source of disagreement in future drought assessments. Environmental Research Letters, 16(10), p.104001.
Telteu, C.-E., Müller Schmied, H., Thiery, W., Leng, G., Burek, P., Liu, X., Boulange, J. E. S., Andersen, L. S., Grillakis, M., Gosling, S. N., Satoh, Y., Rakovec, O., Stacke, T., Chang, J., Wanders, N., Shah, H. L., Trautmann, T., Mao, G., Hanasaki, N., Koutroulis, A., Pokhrel, Y., Samaniego, L., Wada, Y., Mishra, V., Liu, J., Döll, P., Zhao, F., Gädeke, A., Rabin, S. S., and Herz, F.: Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 3843–3878, doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-3843-2021, 2021.
Grillakis, M.G., Koutroulis, A.G., Alexakis, D.D., Polykretis, C. and Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2021. Regionalizing Root‐Zone Soil Moisture Estimates From ESA CCI Soil Water Index Using Machine Learning and Information on Soil, Vegetation, and Climate. Water Resources Research, 57(5), p.e2020WR029249.
Gudmundsson L., H. X. Do, Simon N. Gosling, M. G. Grillakis, A. G. Koutroulis, M. Leonard, J. Lui, H. M. Schmied, L. Papadimitriou, Y. Pokhrel, J. Schewe, S. I. Seneviratne, W. Thiery, S. Westra, X. Zhang, F. Zhao. (2021). Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change. Science Vol. 371, 6534, pp. 1159-1162, doi:10.1126/science.aba3996.
Pokhrel, Y., Felfelani, F., Satoh, Y., Boulange, J., Burek, P., Gädeke, A., Gerten, D., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M., Gudmundsson, L., Hanasaki, N., Kim, H., Koutroulis, A., Liu, J., Papadimitriou, L., Schewe, J., Müller Schmied, H., Stacke, T., Telteu, C. E., Thiery, W., Veldkamp, T., Zhao, F., Wada, Y., Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Drought Severity under Climate Change, Nature Climate Change, 11(3), pp.226-233.
Reinecke, R., Müller Schmied, H., Trautmann, T., Burek, P., Flörke, M., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M., Hanasaki, N., Koutroulis, A., Pokhrel, Y., Seaby, L., Thiery, W., Wada, Y., Yusuke, S., and Döll, P.: Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: A global-scale multi-model ensemble study, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-787-2021, 2021.
Tramblay Y., Koutroulis A., Samaniego L., et al (2020) Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios. Earth-Science Rev 103348. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103348
Gädeke A, Krysanova V, Aryal A, Chang J, Grillakis M, Hanasaki N, Koutroulis A, Pokhrel Y, Satoh Y, Schaphoff S, Schmied HM. Performance evaluation of global hydrological models in six large Pan-Arctic watersheds. Climatic Change 163, 1329–1351 (2020). doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02892-2.
Tichavský, R., Koutroulis, A., Chalupová, O., Chalupa, V., Šilhán, K. Flash flood reconstruction in the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional tree ring-based chronology and assessment of climate triggers on the island of Crete. Journal of Arid Environments 2020, 177,104135, doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104135