Marios Anagnostou holds a Master of Engineering (2000) in Avionics from the University of York (UK) and a PhD (2006) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut (USA), with a thesis entitled "Mobile High Resolution X-Band Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar Measurements (XPOL): Evaluation and Application". His research interests focus on fundamental issues of analysis, simulation and visualization of complex atmospheric and surface hydrometeorological processes of the hydrological cycle at various spatio-temporal scales.