Dr. Karstens has long experience in regional scale atmospheric modelling, including tracer transport modelling and regional scale atmospheric inversions. She is working as researcher at the ICOS Carbon Portal at Lund University and is responsible for the coordination of elaborated products (end user services) and Jupyter notebook developments based on ICOS measurement data.
Dr. Saltikoff is the Head of Operations at ICOS ERIC, linking the experience of Operations unit and ICOS station PIs to this project. She moved to ICOS from position of research scientist at Meteorological Research unit of FMI, where she worked with several aspects of weather radars from nowcasting to climatology, including some assimilation and verification, and management of EUMETNET radar programme OPERA.
Dr. Parampil is the Scientific Integration Officer of ICOS ERIC since August 2020. Prior to joining ICOS, she worked at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) investigating sources and sinks of CO2 over oceans from NASA’s OCO-2 satellite. She obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, for examining the ‘Subseasonal variability of heat and freshwater fluxes over the Indian Ocean’. Her expertise is in air-sea fluxes and use of in-situ measurements for the calibration and validation of satellite data. She has also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Uppsala University (Sweden) where she was involved in estimating CO2 fluxes for the Baltic Sea using satellite and in situ data.
Dr. Stavros Stagakis is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Atmospheric Sciences group of the Department of Environmental Sciences in the University of Basel and a Research Associate at the Remote Sensing Lab, FORTH. He is the PI of the project diFUME: Urban carbon dioxide Flux Monitoring using Eddy Covariance and Earth Observation, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships programme (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018). He holds a BSc in Biological Applications and Technology and PhD in Plant Ecophysiology and Remote Sensing. His expertise is on remote sensing applications in biosphere monitoring and modelling. His latest research is focused on urban environment and urban climate, working extensively with Eddy Covariance measurements of turbulent CO2 fluxes and the combination of meteorological in-situ measurements with remote sensing imagery for spatially disaggregated modelling and monitoring of biogenic and anthropogenic CO2 fluxes.
Konstantinos Politakos holds a B.Sc. degree from the Department of Physics, University of Crete and works as a research assistant at Foundation for Research and Technology. His main scientific interest includes urban climate and Eddy Covariance in an urban environment. Last September he participated at the 4th ICOS Science Conference with the project "Inter-annual variability of Eddy Covariance CO2 flux measurements in the city center of Heraklion, Greece".
Mirosław Zimnoch is associate professor at the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland and Head of Environmental Physics Group. His research activity is focused on the application of natural isotope tracers (carbon, oxygen, radon) for atmospheric trace gas cycling studies, air quality studies, application of UAV-s (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for atmospheric boundary layer dynamics research, design and construction of mobile sensors and automatic air sampling devices and numerical modelling of the atmospheric circulation and trace gas transport.
Michal Galkowski was born in Brzesko, Poland, in 1986. He received master's degreen in Nuclear Physics in 2010 and PhD in Physics in 2015, both at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. Since 2017 he is a PostDoc at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, in the Airborne Trace Gas Measurement and Mesoscale Modelling Group. His research interests are focused on bridging the gap between observations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and their the models, in particular on the regional scales. In the scope of CoCO2 he is coordinating setting up and running of a modelling framework that consists of a coupled eulerian transport model (WRF-GHG) and an analytical inversion system aimed at estimation of GHG emissions on local and regional scales. This work is done in close coordination with group investigating modern research techniques in order to improve the modelling results by assimilating local vertical profile information and radiocarbon data.
Head of the Remote Sensing Lab, operating two Flux Towers in the city of Heraklion. Holds a BSc in Physics, a MSc in Environmental Physics and PhD in Remote Sensing. Main research interests: climate change and urbanization, urban climate, urban energy balance, urban resilience, urban planning and metabolism, natural and technological hazards, surface temperature and albedo, environmental monitoring and change detection. cPI of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project urbisphere, focusing on coupling dynamic cities and climate; and coordinator of the H2020-Space project CURE, focusing on Copernicus Core Services exploitation in the domain of urban resilience. Member of the Board of Directors of the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence, in Earth Observation, Space Technology and Geospatial Analysis. Member of the GEO Climate Change Working Group.