Panagiotis Elias received an MSc degree in signal processing for telecommunications and multimedia from the University of Athens, Greece, in 2007, a Ph.D. degree in geosciences within the framework of a cotutelle agreement between the École Normale Supérieure (France) and the University of Patras (Greece), focused on space geodesy, in 2013. He joined the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece in 2005, where he focused on satellite geodesy and modeling for geophysical applications. He is the author of 35 peer-reviewed publication in international scientific journals. His publications have been cited 321 times, with an h-index of 12 according to the Web of Sciences Dr. Elias is a member of the Remote Sensing and Space Applications executive committee of the Hellenic Geological Society.