Helena Flocas is a Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Department of Physics of Physics, Section of Environmental Physics-Meteorology. She was born in Kalabaka, Greece. She received her B.Sc. in Physics from University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1987), her M.Sc. in Meteorology from University of Reading, UK, (1990) and her PhD in Meteorology and Climatology from University of Thessaloniki (1993). She performed postgraduate research in Reading University, UK being funded by the British Council. She was tenured as Lecturer in 2000 and became Full Professor in 2018. Her research focuses on Atmospheric Dynamics, Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology and Climate Variability with emphasis on the Mediterranean basin. She has published over 110 papers in international journals, 200 in conference proceedings and 13 contributions in books. Her published work has more than 2500 citations (excluding self citations of all authors) with H-index 26. She supervised 6 completed PhD and over 53 postgraduate dissertations. She has participated in 60 projects (in 7 of them was coordinator). She is member of the Editorial Board of the journals Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Climate, Global Nest and Meteorology and served as Guest editor in other journals. She contributed as referee in over 40 scientific journals. She has received scholarship from the National Institution of Scholarships during her undergraduate studies and scholarship from NATO during her postgraduate studies in UK.