Makropoulos Christos

Professor Christos Makropoulos is affiliated with the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, where he works in the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on water distribution systems, climate resilience, cyber-physical security, and machine learning applications for environmental engineering.

Key research areas include:

• Climate adaptation in water infrastructure
• Digital twin systems for water quality management
• Reinforcement learning for network planning
• Circular economy implementation in urban water systems
• Cyber-physical threat modeling
• Earth Observation data utilization

He is associated with the Hydrology and Water Resources Utilization Laboratory and has published extensively on water system resilience, sensor placement optimization, and uncertainty quantification in hydrological models. His recent work explores digital twins and decentralized water management solutions.