Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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Dr Ilias Pechlivanidis is the Scientific Leader in Forecasting of Water Variables at SMHI and the Project Manager of the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) Dissemination Centre which is under the umbrella of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. In addition, he is the Co-Chair of the HEPEX (Hydrologic Ensemble Prediction EXperiment) scientific initiative, and a Reference Group Member at the Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS). Moreover, he is also an expert in identification and evaluation of hydrologic models under uncertainty and has more than 15 years of experience in hydrologic/hydraulic research. He is the Associate Editor in Hydrology and Water Resources in the Global NEST journal, a Guest Editor at two special issues in the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) journal, a Guest Editor in the Water journal, and has organised and convened international workshops and conferences (>20). He has been the principal investigator in European and international projects at SMHI, focusing on short to medium-range and (sub-) seasonal hydrological forecasting, calibration of large scale multi-basin hydrological models, and assessment of environmental change on hydrology and water resources. He has been coordinating SMHI’s operational sub-seasonal and seasonal hydro-meteorological forecasting service over Europe and the seasonal forecasting services over the globe. Finally he is leading the development/improvement of the application of the HYPE hydrological model in the Indian subcontinent.