The Cyprus Institute

Aristeidis (Aris) K. Georgoulias (AKG) is a Physicist with a Master’s degree in Environmental Physics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH). In 2011, he obtained his PhD from the Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH). After his PhD, AKG received a two-years postdoctoral fellowship to lead his own scientific project (QUADIEEMS) at the Department of Meteorology and Climatology of AUTH and the Multiphase Chemistry Department of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz, Germany. During the last decade AKG worked for various institutions (universities, institutes and companies) in Greece, Cyprus and the Netherlands in the field of atmospheric physics, satellite remote sensing, atmospheric pollution and climate change.

 

His research focuses on the investigation of aerosols, clouds, trace gases, radiation and their interrelations, atmospheric pollution, its trends and its effect on human health as seen from satellites as well as on the analysis and interpretation of regional and global climate simulations.

 

So far, AKG has participated in about 20 research projects being author or co-author of around 50 scientific articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, 3 book chapters, and more than 110 papers/abstracts presented at national and international conferences and has served as a reviewer for the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and for around 30 scientific journals. He is also a contributing author of the IPCC Working Group I (WGI) Sixth Assessment Report (Chapter 6).

 

Since May 2025, in parallel with his research activities research activities at AUTH, AKG serves as a Senior Research Affiliate at the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of the Cyprus Institute (CyI).

 

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