On October 17-18, the ERC Water Futures team, led by Professor Phoebe Koundouri, gathered to deepen discussions on the future of urban drinking water systems. This interdisciplinary team merges expertise across water science, systems and control theory, economics, decision science, and machine learning.
Participating institutions include:
- Athens University of Economics and Business (ReSEES, Research Laboratory AUEB) and DTU – Technical University of Denmark, with Professor Phoebe Koundouri as Principal Investigator.
- Bielefeld University, represented by Principal Investigator Professor Barbara Hammer.
- University of Cyprus (KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence), led by Principal Investigator Professor Marios Polycarpou.
- KWR Water Research Institute and the University of Exeter, with Principal Investigator Professor Dragan Savic FREng.
Special thanks were extended to Professor John List from the University of Chicago for his inspiring talk on “The Economics of Scaling”, which brought valuable insights to the conversation.
Professor Koundouri expressed appreciation for the hard work of her ReSEES Laboratory team at AUEB, including Ebun Akinsete (PhD), Panagiotis Samartzis, CFA, Conrad Landis, Sotiris Georganas, Alina Velias, Lazaros-Antonios Chatzilazarou, Sofia Frantzi, Roy Brouwer, Nikitas Pittis, Athanasios Yannacopoulos, George Papagiannis, Konstantinos Georgalos, Georgios Feretzakis, and Anastasia Litina.
For more information on the ERC Water Futures project and its contributions to resilient urban water systems, visit the project’s official page.
