Efthimios Tagaris earned a B.Sc. in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1989), and a Ph.D. from the Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Greece (2002). He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece. His research interests include air quality modeling, atmospheric chemistry, air pollution and its health effects, climate change, and numerical weather prediction. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and has presented his research at numerous national and international scientific conferences.