Dr. Athena Augusta Floutsi

Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)

Permoserstraße 15

04318 Leipzig

Germany

 

Phone: +49 341 2717-7387

eMail: athina.floutsi@tropos.de

Room: 217 (Building 23.1)

ORCID: 0000-0001-9662-8684

 

Function

PostDoc

 

Department

Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Processes

 

Group

Ground-based remote sensing

 

Research areas & research interest

  • Atmospheric observations with lidar
  • Aerosol remote sensing
  • Aerosol characterization
  • Typing methodologies based on lidar observations
     

Current projects

  • Development of an aerosol typing algorithm applicable to both ground based and spaceborne lidars
  • A-CARE (Technical assistance for EarthCARE-related research activities in combination with the A-Life field experiment)
  • A-LIFE (Absorbing aerosol layers in a changing climate: aging, lifetime and dynamics)

 

Curriculum vitae

Academic qualification   

Time frameTitleAffiliation, place
2010-2014B.Sc. Environmental ScienceUniversity of the Aegean, Greece
2015-2018M.Sc. Applied Earth Sciences (specialization in Geoscience and Remote Sensing)Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
2018-2022PhD studentTROPOS, Germany
since 2022Scientist for EarthCARE projectsTROPOS, Germany

 

Research Experience

Time frameTitleAffiliation, place
2016InternshipThe Cyprus Institute, Cyprus

 

Awards

• 2016/17 internship award of the faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology