He is a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Water Systems of the University of Exeter, the co-Editor in Chief of Urban Water Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hydroinformatics. Dr Makropoulos is an expert in hydroinformatic tools and methods for urban water management with an emphasis on distributed water infrastructure and whole city modelling. His work focuses on risk analysis, uncertainty quantification, multi-objective evolutionary optimization, decision support and long-term policy scenario development. He has authored more than 100 journal and conference papers and book chapters and is a reviewer for 15 academic Journals. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.