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= Georgia Destouni =

Georgia (Gia) Destouni is a Swedish hydrologist and professor of hydrology, hydrogeology, and water resources at Stockholm University. Destouni is known for her multidisciplinary research of a broad range of hydrology topics, including solute transport throughout the entire hydrologic cycle, groundwater in heterogeneous aquifers, and pollution of large scale water systems.

Early Life & Education
Destouni was born in Greece and moved with her parents to Sweden when she was nine. Destouni completed the majority of her education in Sweden but still maintains a connection to both cultures. She has had a passion for science since childhood, particularly for physics, math, water, and the application of scientific problems to solve real-world problems, in part inspired by her father who also had a passion for science although he did not study it.

Destouni earned a Masters of Science (MSc) in civil engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1987, then proceeded to get a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering in 1991 from the same institution.

Career & Research
Destouni currently is a Professor of Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Water Resources at Stockholm University, as well as the head of the department of Physical Geology.

Previous positions include Secretary General of Formas (Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning), and professor of Engineering Hydrology at the Royal Institute of Technology.

Destouni's early career focused on water through the perspective of technology and engineering, and she has gradually shifted to study water from an environmental and geoscience perspective, while still including this earlier experience and expertise in her work. Her impact in both the field of engineering and geosciences is demonstrated by her membership in both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Destouni "was the lead author of at least two fundamental contributions that became standard reference" about the transport of solutes by groundwater, and recognized as a "true pioneer" and "internationally recognized leader of the community" within the field of hydrology.

Awards & Honors
Destouni has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards and honors including:

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 * Member - the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
 * Member - Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
 * Fellow - the American Geophysical Union.
 * 2013 Henry Darcy Medalist - the European Geosciences Union
 * Vice President - the International Association for Hydrological Sciences [[European Geosciences Union|

She has served on numerous boards, scientific councils, and as editor for scientific publications both currently and in the past, including:


 * Board Member - the Stockholm Resilience Center
 * Member of Scientific Council - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
 * Associate Editor - Ambio
 * Associate Editor - Journal of Hydrology

Publications
Destouni has over 150 publications and more than 6,500 citations according to her Google Scholar profile.

Top publications as analysed by Google Scholar include:


 * Hypoxia-related processes in the Baltic Sea. Conley, D.J., Bj̈orck, S., Bonsdorff, E., Carstensen, J., Destouni, G., Gustafsson, B.G., Hietanen, S., Kortekaas, M., Kuosa, H., Markus Meier, H.E. and Müller-Karulis, B.. Environmental Science & Technology, 43(10), pp.3412-3420., 2009.
 * How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis. McDonnell J.J., McGuire K., Aggarwal P., Beven K.J., Biondi D., Destouni G., Dunn S., James A., Kirchner J., Kraft P., Lyon S., et al., Hydrological Processes, 24(12), 1745-1754, 2010.
 * Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity. Basu N., Destouni G., Jawitz J., Thompson S., Loukinova N., Darracq A., Zanardo S., Yaeger M., Sivapalan M., Rinaldo A., Rao P., Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L23404, 2010.
 * Resolving the scale-dependence of mineral weathering rates. Malmström, M.E., Destouni, G., Banwart, S.A. and Strömberg, B.H., 2000. Environmental science & technology, 34(7), pp.1375-1378.
 * Hydroclimatic shifts driven by human water use for food and energy production. Destouni G, Jaramillo F, Prieto C, Nature Climate Change, 3, 213-217, 2013.

Personal Life
In a 2018 interview with Zahra Kalantari, Georgia spoke about being motivated and driven by curiosity and fun, and advised young scientists to do the same.