Dr. Anna Belehaki is the research director at the National Observatory of Athens and head of the Ionospheric Group. She obtained a PhD in Space Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1992. She then joined the Canadian Network for Space Research of the University of Alberta in Canada as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Anna Belehaki has a long experience in ionospheric experiments and monitoring techniques, space weather prediction and forecast models for ionospheric effects, the development of operational space weather services, and the study of solar wind–magnetospheric–ionospheric interactions for the modeling of the topside ionosphere and the plasmasphere.