Dr. Salamon joined the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in 2006 as a scientific project manager providing policy support in flood risk management at European and global levels. He has gained experience in hydrology, numerical modeling, flood risk and hazard mapping, assessing the effects of climate change on natural disasters, uncertainty estimation, and operational flood forecasting systems. He manages the operational European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) and the development of the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. He holds an M.Sc. in Applied Environmental Geoscience from the University of Tübingen and a Ph.D. in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.