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 journals: more 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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