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Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Director of Research - Head of RSLab
Dr. Nektarios Chrysoulakis is a Director of Research at FORTH and Head of the Remote
Sensing Lab (http://rslab.gr). He holds a BSc in Physics, a MSc in Environmental Physics and
PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Athens. He has been involved in R&D projects
funded by the European Union, the European Space Agency and the Ministries of
Environment, Development, Culture and Education. His main research interests include
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. Dr. Chrysoulakis is cPI of the
European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project urbisphere (http://urbisphere.eu), focusing
on coupling dynamic cities and climate. He is the coordinator of the H2020-Space project
CURE (http://cure-copernicus.eu), focusing on Copernicus services exploitation in the domain
of urban resilience. He has coordinated the projects URBANFLUXES (H2020), SEN4RUS
(ERA.Net-RUS Plus), BRIDGE (FP7) GEOURBAN (FP7). He has also participated projects
CoCO2(H2020), HARMONIA (H2020), ECOPOTENTIAL (H2020), THINKNATURE (H2020), IGIC
(LIFE) and FLIRE (LIFE). Dr. Chrysoulakis is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence (https://eratosthenes.org.cy), in Earth Observation, space
technology and geospatial analysis. Dr. Chrysoulakis is a Visiting Professor at the Department
of Physics of the University of Crete, teaching the course “Principles and Applications of
Satellite Remote Sensing”; and at the CIHEAM-MAICh, teaching the course “Remote sensing
of Urban Environments”. Since 2016 he has been co-Chair of the SPIE Conference on Remote
Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments. He is involved in GEO Climate
Change Working Group, as well as in GEO Programme Board Urban Resilience Subgroup. He
has more than 300 publications in per-review journals and conference proceedings.
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