Chrysi Laspidou is a Professor at the Civil Engineering Department, and the Head of the Innovation-Technology Transfer Unit & Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Thessaly in Greece. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD at Northwestern University in the US. She is the Vice-President of Collaborations Programme at the Brussels-based organization, Water Europe, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Knowledge Action Network at Future Earth. She is the Chair of the Water-Energy-Food COST Action network NEXUSNET and the coordinator of the 15-million European project ARSINOE and involved in a number of other funded projects.  She has published over 70 articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings and is actively involved either as a Coordinator, or as a Principal Investigator in research projects funded by the European Commission, or national sources.