Prof. Dr. Maria Kanakidou is a chemist (National Kapodistrian University of Athens) with an MSc in Chemistry of Pollution, PhD and Habilitation in Chemistry of Air Pollution and Environmental Physics (University Paris VII). She is Professor of Computational Environmental Chemistry, at the Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory of the Chemistry Department of the University of Crete, and an Excellence Chair Professor at the Institute of Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen, a member of the UN/WMO joint group of experts on the scientific aspects of marine environmental protection (GESAMP) WG38 on Atmospheric Input of Chemicals to the Ocean, the Surface Ocean Low Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), and the WMO Global Atmosphere Watch’s Measurement-Model Fusion for Global Total Atmospheric Deposition (MMF-GTAD) Initiative, and an honorary member of the International commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP). She has received several awards, including the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2016 and a von Humboldt Research Award in 2019. Her research is centered on atmospheric chemistry, biogeochemical cycles, and climate with current scientific foci on the atmospheric deposition of nutrients, and on the impact of aerosols on the environment and climate.