Telephone: +30 2610 996517, 6599
E-mail: kaleris@upatras.gr

Born in Chalkis (1951). He is a graduate of the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Thessaloniki. He pursued postgraduate studies in University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He got his Dr.-Ing. degree from University of Stuttgart, Germany. Since 2002 he is Professor for Water Resources Engineering – Hydrology in the Department of Civil Engineering.

During the years 1979 – 1984 he was a Researcher at the University of Karlsruhe and at the Environmental Protection Agency of Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany, where he worked on the problem of surface water – groundwater interaction. During the years 1985 – 1989 he was a Researcher in the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering of the University of Stuttgart, where he worked on problems of groundwater contamination, groundwater sampling as well as on problems of groundwater and soil remediation. In summer 1989 he appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering in University of Patras.

His main research interests lie in groundwater problems and particularly in the simulation of flow and transport processes in aquifers and in the unsaturated zone, as well as in the impact of climate changes on river basin hydrology. He had the scientific responsibility of several research programs, funded by the European Union. He has been several times Visiting Professor at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart during the years 1990-1996. He is member of Greek and international scientific organizations. During the years 1997-2001 he was member of editorial board of Journal of Hydrology.

Selected Publications

1. Kaleris, V., G. Lagas, S. Marczinek and J.A. Piotrowski, 2002: Modelling submarine groundwater discharge: an example from the western Baltic Sea. Journal of Hydrology, vol. 265/1-4, pp. 76-99.
2. Kaleris, V., 2002: Influence of rate-limited sorption on the cleanup of layered soils by vapor extraction. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, vol. 55, pp. 1-27.
3. Kaleris, V., D. Papanastasopoulos and G. Lagas, 2001: Case study on impact of atmospheric circulation changes on river basin hydrology: uncertainty aspects, Journal of Hydrology, vol. 245/1-4, pp. 137-152.
4. Kaleris, V. and J. Croise, 1999: Estimation of cleanup time in layered soils by vapor extraction, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 36, 105-129.
5. Kaleris, V., 1998: Quantifying the exchange rate between groundwater and small streams, Journal of Hydraulic Research, 36(6), 913-932.