Calliope Panoutsou is an agricultural engineer and holds a PhD on ‘Socioeconomic aspects of bioenergy systems at regional level’ from Aston University, UK. She is an expert in biomass for the biobased economy and her research interests focus on supply, logistics & economics of biomass value chains, market & policy analyses as well as sustainability. Through her research she has formed a multi-disciplinary background with skills and knowledge in agriculture, energy, environment, economics, social studies and modelling. She has extensive research and project experience in biomass R&D throughout Europe and has coordinated several EU projects involving multi-disciplinary research. She is also the Chair for biomass availability within the European Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP bioenergy) http://etipbioenergy.eu/
