Short Biography

Professor Costas VAROTSOS
(f Dean of the School of Science)

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7215-3610

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1243395
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=hiPftWoAAAAJ
Costas A. Varotsos | Scholar Profiles and Rankings | ScholarGPS




Main research interests: 

  • Climate Change 
  • Natural Disasters
  • Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric Physics & Chemistry
  • Environmental Change
  • Biological/Ecological Applications
  • Non-linear Processes

Important publications:

  • Research papers in refereed journalsmore than 400  with H-index = 65 (WoS) and with Monographs  H-index = 78 (Google Scholar).
  • Scientific books-monographs:
        -15 books (monographs) of SPRINGER-NATURE (in English and German)
         -3 books (monographs) of CRC Taylor & Francis and Matrix Rom (in English)
         -5 University books (monographs) (in Greek)


Current international positions of responsibility:

  • Editor-in-Chief of   “Remote Sens Lett” (T&F) 
  • Editor-in-Chief of  "J Atmos Sol Terr Phys" (Elsevier)
  • Editor of “Int J Remote Sens” (T&F)
  • Editor of "Int J Environ Res and Public Health" (MDPI)
  • Editor of "Remote Sensing" (MDPI)
  • Editor of the Book Series for Remote Sens (World Scientific Publ.)
  • Member in the Editorial Board of several Journals indexed in WoS.
Distinctions / Awards:

  • Academician of the "International Academy of Astronautics - IAA"
  • Academician of the "World Academy of Sciences"
  • Academician of the  "European Academy of Natural Sciences" (Hanover, Germany)
  • Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Honorary Professor of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
  • Fellow (elected) of the Royal Meteorological Society (Oxford, UK)
  • World’s Top 2% most-cited scientist by Stanford University
  • Author of “Emerging Research Fronts Paper” in Geosciences (Thomson Reuters)
  • Author of “Hot Papers” in Ecology / Environment (Press Release of Thomson Sci.)
  • Author of "Highlight paper" of the United Nations Environmental Programme
  • Gold A.S. Popov medal of the Russian A.S. Popov Society
  • Vernadsky medal of the RANS
  • RADI Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • MOST/ESA Award of Nat Rem Sens Cent China & European Space Agency
  • Outstanding Reviewer from several Publishers
  • Highly Ranked Scholar by Scholar GPS (#70, Pollution: in the top 0.05 %) 


 


       

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