Maria Tombrou-Tzella is Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Department of Physics, Section of Environmental Physics-Meteorology. She graduated from the University of Athens in 1979 in Physics. She then continued her post-graduate studies at the University of Lancaster (England) where she obtained a PhD in the field of Atmospheric Physics (1983), being funded by a NATO scholarship. Before she became a faculty member at the University of Athens (1991), she was employed by the National Nuclear & Physical Sciences Research Center “Demokritos” (1984) and by the Greek National Power Corporation in the dept. of Alternative Energy Forms (1986). She has published about 70 papers in scientific journals, over 100 in proceedings of international conferences and had several contributions in books. Her published work has 1700 citations (excluding self-citations of all authors) with h-index 20. She supervised 8 completed PhD and over 30 postgraduate dissertations. She has been involved in research in atmospheric science since 1980 and her research covers topics in boundary layer, mean and turbulence characteristics of wind flow over complex terrain, urban meteorology and meteorological modeling for air pollution dispersion (gases and aerosols). Over the past 10 years, her research has focused on studying the physical and chemical processes over the Aegean Sea, while recently she has been involved in clouds research. Since 1991 she has participated in 19 international and several national projects including research on atmospheric boundary layer dynamics and turbulence measurements for wind field and gust spectra prediction in complex terrain (JOULE II, PREDICT, SFINCS) as well as on atmospheric pollution (LIFE, COTTON, ICAROS, ICAROS-NET, ECATS, EUFAR).