Charikleia Karakosta is a Chemical Engineer and works as a Research Associate at the University of Piraeus Research Centre (UPRC), as well as at the Management & Decision Support Systems Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She has participated in several research and consultancy projects in the fields of energy-environmental and climate policy, energy planning and management, technology transfer and decision support. She holds a PhD in Decision Support Systems for the Promotion of the Effective Technology Transfer within the frame of Climate Change from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and MSc in Energy Production and Management by NTUA. She has more than 95 scientific publications in international journals with reviewers, announcements in international conferences and chapters in books. For her work, she has received awards by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) and the NTUA.