FELLOWSHIPS

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2017:

Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (IF), project “ENVISION-EO” 

 

2015:

Awarded Senior Fellow (SFHEA) of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA). Professional Recognition of Teaching and Fellowship (https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/).

 

2014: 

Fellowship (FHEA) of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK. Professional Recognition of my Teaching and Fellowship obtained. https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/

 

2013:

Marie Curie Reintegration Grant (GIG), Marie Curie fellowship, project TRANSFORM-EO”

 

2010:

European Space Agency (ESA) fellowship. My proposal was one of the 10 accepted by ESA in a call that was open for all ESA-Member States and Canada

 

2009:

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, the Ministry of Education, Greece

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AWARDS

 

2021:

Excellent Associate Editor Award_for journal Environmental Modelling & Software, Elsevier

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2020:

 ESA's Mission Advisory Group (MAG) for the launch of the new satellite mission named “TRUTH”, hyperspectral imager

 

2019:

• Springer Certificate of Appreciation for “great performance and help in evaluating papers submitted for publication in the CAJG-2019 proceedings by Springer (https://www.cajg.org/) 

• Invitation  by   NASA’s   CEOS   Land  Product   Validation   (LPV)   subgroup   to contribute to the preparation of a community‐based best practice document for the validation of global soil moisture products. Initiative lead by Mike Cosh (USDA, Agricultural Research Service, USA) & Carsten Monzka (Jülich Research Centre, Germany). For further information on CEOS LPV soil moisture see: https://lpvs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SM/SM_home.html

• Nanjing  University  of  Information  Science  &  Technology  (NUIST),  China. Invitation to attend the 8th  Chinese-American Oceanic & Atmospheric Association (COAA) International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Change, July 10-12, 2019, Nanjing, China.

• Invitation by Nature Scientific Data journal to become an Editorial Board Member (Journal IF: 5.305)

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2018:

• Best conference poster award at the Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS 2018), Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, October 15-19th, 2018. Title of work awarded: “Sensitivity of Soil Dielectric Mixing Models for SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval”.

• Editor of Elsevier's Book series in "Earth Observation" (invited by Elsevier)

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2017:

• European Commission: invitation to act as a reviewer of a series of EO-based products (the soil moisture & radiation fluxes) that are currently prepared to be distributed operationally under Copernicus Service.

• European Commission: invitation to act as proposal evaluator and rapporteur for HORIZON2020 COMPTEC and “Space” call for proposals.

• Associate Editor invitation from the journal International Journal of Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis, (journal IF: 1.640)

• Invitation to join the Scientific Committee of the Annual Conference of the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetric Society (RSPSoC 2017) conference, London, September, 5-8th, 2017.

• Invitation by the Satellite Applications Catapult and The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to deliver a talk at the Soil Moisture workshop organised by NERC  on January 25th, 2017, at the Satellite Applications Catapult, Harwell

• European Commission: invitation to act as proposal evaluator and rapporteur for HORIZON2020 “Space” call for proposals, specifically the call EO-3 on “Evolution of Copernicus services”.

• Editorial Board Member invitation from the journal Environmental Modelling & Software of Elsevier (journal IF: 4.207)

 

2015:

Recognition of appreciation from the journal “International journal of Digital Earth” for my contribution as a reviewer 

 

2014:

Scientific Visitor at NASA’s Hydrology Group, Goddard Space Flight Centre, to conduct research relevant to the estimation of parameters characterising water cycle.

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2011: 

• Book Editor Invitation: Invitation by Taylor and Francis publisher to edit a book on the retrievals of turbulent heat fluxes and soil moisture from remote sensing.

• Invitation to a specialists committee of Greek Government. Invitation by the Greek Ministry of Environment Energy and Climate Change, Department of Spatial Planning to participate to a specialists committee related to landscape, with particular focus to the implementation of the European Landscape Convention and the preparation of National Landscape strategy for Greece.    

• Invitation to contribute to the book of Wiley and Son “Scale Issues in Remote Sensing”, edited by Prof. Q. Weng (Purdue, USA). 

• Invited paper submission: from Computational Ecology and Software international journal. Paper title: “Combined use of weather forecasting and satellite remote sensing information for fire risk, fire and fire impact monitoring”, co-authored with W. Knorr, D. Pytharoulis and N., Gobron.

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2010:

• Fully funded participation to Training Course On "ADdvanced Digital Remote Sensing in Ecology and earth Sciences Summer School (ADDRESSS), organised by the European Facility for Airborne Research (EUFAR). 

• Seminar Invitation by the Institute of Geomatics and Risk Analysis of the University of Laussanne, Switzerland. Seminar delivered covered the application of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to EO imagery for burnt area mapping. 

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2009: 

• Young Scientist's Travel Award received for participation to the European Geosciences Union 2010 Assembly, held in Vienna, Austria 2-7th, May, 2010.

• Invitation for a full paper submission for a special issue for the international peer-reviewed journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences of the work entitled “Rapid Analysis of Wildfire Impacts Using ASTER Data And Support Vector Machines: A Case Study From The Greek Fires Season Of Summer 2007”. 

• Chairman Invitation to the conference session “Vegetation and Agriculture 2” of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) 29th   Annual International Conference, held in Chania, June 15-18th, 2009

• Honorary Research Fellow, title award from Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (for the period 2009-2012).

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2004: 

Research Award from University of London Central Research Funds, given to young   researchers in support of research. 

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2002:

Scholarship obtained on a competitive basis and at a national level from the Greek Scholarships Foundation (IKY) for pursing an MSc and PhD in the field of Earth Observation modelling.