Group Leader George Kallos

Date of birth:	10 March 1951
Place of birth:	Lamia, Greece
Marital Status:	Married with two children

Organization of primary employment

University of Athens
School of Physics, Division of Environment and Meteorology
University Campus, Bldg. PHYS-V
15784 Athens, Greece
Phone: 30-210-7276835
Fax: 30-210-7276765
E-mail: kallos 'at' mg.uoa.gr, g-kallos 'at' otenet.gr
Web: http://forecast.uoa.gr

Title of primary employment

Professor
Also with SUNY/ASRC, Albany, NY (Senior Research Associate)
Chapman University, Research Professor

Titles of first degrees, organization and year

• B.Sc., University of Athens, School of Mathematics, 1975

Postgraduate titles, organizations, year and scientific area

• MSc, University of Athens, School of Physics, 1977, Meteorology
• MSc, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Geophysical Sciences, 1983, Atmospheric Sciences
• Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Geophysical Sciences, 1985, Atmospheric Sciences

Foreign languages

• English
• French (read only)

Fields of Scientific and professional activities

• Atmospheric Dynamics (Regional and Mesoscale Modeling)
• Air Pollution Modeling (Dispersion, Diffusion, chemistry)
• Wave modeling and marine meteorology
• Regional climate
• Data assimilation
• Agricultural Meteorology
• Severe Weather Phenomena
• Wind Energy Applications

Published work (attach complete list)

Number of publications in journals:	106
Number of publications in conference proceedings:	221
Number of books, dissertation, etc:	9
Other published work :	160+
Citations:	2445+
PhDs finished:	10
Member of PhD Reading Committees	19
Number of projects externally funded:	78
Principal Investigator in	63

Related professional experience

Contribution in research projects
Participation in 74 research projects in Greece, Europe and USA, funded from various agencies (NSF, NASA, NCAR, EPA, EPRI, EU-DGXII, EU-DGXI, EU-Environment, IBM, different Greek Ministries, Agencies, Private Companies etc). In 60 of them as Principal Investigator.
Consulting in different agencies in Greece and USA.
Consulting for the Olympic Games Athens2004 for subjects related to high-resolution weather forecasting. Consultant of International Organizations.

Distinctions

IUAPA (International Union of Air Pollution Prevention Association) award of the Union's highest honor (August 2004) for the work related to long range transport of air pollutants in the Mediterranean Region.

Member of the Scientifc Sterering Committee of the World Meterorological Organization - WMO for the Sand and Dust Stroms Regional Center for Europe and Mediterranean.

Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Mediterranean Operational Oceanographic Network - MOON.

Young research EURASAP Award to the PhD student (guided by me) Marina Astitha in recognition of the paper presented at the 29th ITM Conference entitled: "Heterogeneous chemical processes and their role on particulate matter formation in the Mediterranean Region" (September 2007).

Young research EURASAP Award to the PhD student (guided by me) Stavros Solomos in recognition of the paper presented at the 31st ITM Conference entitled: "Effects of airborne particles on cloud formation and precipitation - A modeling study" (September 2010).

Other professional work

• National Representative for the COST programs 710,615,616,617.
• Associate Editor of the journals:
  - "Environmental Fluid Mechanics"
  - "Journal of Atmosphere-Ocean System"
  - "Advances in Meteorology"
  - "Atmospheric Pollution Research"
  - "Journal of Aerospace Operations"
  
• Member of the editorial board for the journals:
  - "The Journal of Atmosphere - Ocean Systems"
  - "Journal of Atmosphere-Ocean System"
  - "Environmental Fluid Mechanics"
  - "International Journal of Geosciences"
  
• Guest editor:
  - "The Global Atmosphere Ocean System", Special issue dedicated to POSEIDON forecasting system. (2001)
  - "Environmental Fluid Mechanics": Special issue dedicated to 5th RAMS users workshop. (2005)
  - "Environmental Fluid Mechanics": Special Issue on selected papers from the MERCYMS project. (2007)
  - "Environmental Fluid Mechanics": Special Issue on selected papers from the CMAQ Workshop. (2008)
  - "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics": Special Issue on "Desert dust and its impact on air quality. (2012)
  
• Referee in scientific journals and research institutes.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the NATO-CCMS series of conferences on air pollution modeling and its application.

Graduate students

• PhDs guided:10
  - Pavlos Kassomenos (working at University of Ioannina as Associate Professor)
  - Maria Varinou (working at General Secretariat of Civil Protection)
  - Anastasios Papadopoulos (working at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research)
  - Petros Katsafados (working at the Harocopion University of Athens as Lecturer)
  - Elias Mavromatidis (working as High School Teacher)
  - Antigoni Voudouri (working at the Hellenic National Meteorological Service)
  - Marina Asitha (working at the Cyprus Institute)
  - George Emmanouil (working at the Hellenic National Meteorological Service)
  - Christos Spyrou (post doc at the AM&WFG)
  - Stavros Solomos (post doc at the AM&WFG)
  
• PhD candidates:5
  - Jonilda Kushta
  - Christina Kalogeri
  - Nikos Bartsotas
  - Nicolas Barranger
  - Thomas Ternisien
  

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