The Cyprus Institute

Katiana Constantinidou

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Katiana has joined the Environmental Predictions Department (EPD) of the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in September 2020. She is currently working on regional climate modeling and the effect of urban parametrizations on climate.

She received her PhD in Energy, Environment and Atmospheric Sciences from the Cyprus Institute in July 2020, her thesis is titled: “Assessing the Effects of Land Surface Schemes on the Climate of the MENA Region with the WRF Model”.

Previously, she was working as a Research Assistant at EEWRC in the field of climate change impacts on agriculture. She received a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Astrophysics, Geophysics and Meteorology with specialization in Meteorology from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky” in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her BSc thesis was titled: ”The sun as source of energy for the atmospheric processes” and her MSc thesis: “Verification of PRECIS regional climate model for the area of Bulgaria in the period of 1961-1990”.

 Research interests:

Regional climate modeling

Urban and land surface properties

Climate change and impacts