Ms E. Manoli works as a Research Associate at the National Technical University of Athens since 1999 on national and European research projects related to water resources management, eco-innovation and climate change adaptation. From 2012 to 2015 she worked as Policy Officer at the Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission, with the main task of developing the EU Research and Innovation Policy in the field of nature-based solutions and climate change adaptation. She rejoined the EEMRU in 2016.