Prof. Dr. SPYRIDON RAPSOMANIKIS

Dr. Spyridon Rapsomanikis was a professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. Now, Leader of the Unit for Environmental and Networking Technologies and Applications of the Research Center ATHENA, GREECE. He obtained his B.Sc. from the Department of Chemistry, Sheffield Hallam University, U.K. in 1980, and his Ph.D. from the School of Chemistry, Leicester DeMontfort University, U.K. in 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he was a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Chemistry, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. From 1985 to 1987, he was a Senior Research Oficer at the Department of Chemistry, University of Essex, Colchester, UK. From 1988 to 1990, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotelian University, Greece. From 1990 to 1997, he was the group leader of “Ocean Atmosphere Interactions” in the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department, Germany. In 1998, he joined the Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and of Pollution Control Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace. His research interests mainly include atmospheric pollution, dispersion of atmospheric pollutants, climate change, determination of greenhouse gases and aerosols, fluxes of climate-relevant gases and aerosols, micrometeorology, and biogeochemistry.