Dr. Vassiliki Kotroni has a Ph.D. in Dynamic Meteorology (University Clermont-Ferrand, 1993). She joined the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) in 1999 and has been a research director since 2011. She has 30 years of experience in numerical weather prediction. She has authored or co-authored ~170 papers published in international journals (h-index 37, citations > 4500), in the fields of: dynamic meteorology, numerical weather prediction (including dust forecasting), weather monitoring, atmospheric electricity, climatology, dynamics and societal impacts of weather-related natural hazards, and development of weather and climate services. She is editor at NHESS and Atmosphere journals. She coordinates: (a) operational weather prediction-related activities at NOA; (b) the operation of the ZEUS lightning detection network; (c) in collaboration with Dr. K. Lagouvardos, the concept, development, and operation of www.meteo.gr. She has coordinated and participated as project manager and/or principal investigator in a large number of national and European projects with total attracted funding >5,200,000 (2024). She has extensive experience attracting funding from the private sector.