SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE OF PROFESSOR SPYRIDON RAPSOMANIKIS
Head of the Unit on Environmental and Networking Technologies and Applications (ENTA) at the Research Center ATHENA.
University Campus, Kimmeria, Xanthi, 67100 GREECE. Email: head-enta@athenarc.gr.
detail info: www.orcid .com with no 0000-0002-7883-0894
The secondary school studies of Professor S. Rapsomanikis were completed at the Varvakeios Model School of Athens, Greece. He studied Applied Chemistry at Hallam Sheffield University, U.K. on full grant from the South Glamorgan County Council of Wales, U.K. In 1980 he was awarded a B.Sc. with Honorary Mention. He carried out research in Environmental Chemistry at Leicester DeMontford University, with funding from the National Environment Council of UK. He was awarded his PhD in 1983. After two years of postdoctoral research at the University of New Hampshire, NH, U.SA., funded by the “Sea Grant of USA”, he returned to the UK., as a Senior Research Officer at the Institute of Aerosol Science, Chemistry Department, Essex University, U.K. In 1990, he was appointed Director of a Research Group on Ocean Atmosphere Interactions at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Otto Hahn Institute, Mainz, Germany. The director of the Institute, Prof. Dr. Paul Crutzen, was awarded the Nobel Price for Atmospheric Chemistry in 1995. Spyridon Rapsomanikis returned to Greece in 1999 as Associate Professor (and since 2002 as Professor) where he founded and assumed duties as Director of the Laboratory of Air Pollution and Air Pollutants Control Engineering, at the Department of Environmental Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace. Nobel prize winner Prof. Dr. Paul Crutzen was ordained as a Honorary Dr. of the Department of Environmental Engineering in 2002.
Professor Rapsomanikis served as the main National Representative of Greece in the National Delegations of the period 2008-2010 for the:
- ESA – European Space Agency – High Level Space Policy Forum,
- ESA– Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (ESA-GMES) and
- European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).
—He is the author of 152 publications in international peer-reviewed journals with 6413 third- party citations (Google Scholar).
—He has obtained funding of total 4,227,000 EU from 25 research projects.
—He has participated in more than 15 international (global and national) expeditions, of which as Chief Scientist (leader) in 10.
—The research interests of Professor S. Rapsomanikis focus on:
- The biogeochemical cycles of selected elements and compounds,
- The anthropogenic and natural emission of suspended particles from the earth-oceans system and their conversions into the atmosphere,
- Urban air pollution,
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- The greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes and biogeochemical cycles on our planet, with a large number of expeditions on sea going and airplane platforms.
- The influence of GHG fluxes on the climate, the meteorology of the Eastern Mediterranean and their atmospheric chemical reactions.
- He has carried out a number of industrial contracts on (a) atmospheric dispersion of pollutants from the compression stations of Trans Adriatic Pipeline of natural gas (b) atmospheric dispersion of pollutants from the lead acid battery recycling facility in northern Greece. (c) the effect of the anthropogenic heat emissions in the urban heat island of Athens, Greece. (d) the effect of climate change on airport operations.
