Last update: Apr 2026
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name, First name: Gkatzelis, Georgios
Researcher unique identifiers: ORCID, Google Scholar
Current Position:
2022 – present Group Leader
Institute of Climate and Energy, ICE-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Previous Positions:
2020 – 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Climate and Energy, ICE-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
2018 – 2020 Research Scientist I
Chemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA, in collaboration with Colorado University
Education:
2017 Dr. rer. nat. Chemistry (summa cum laude)
Chemistry Department, University of Cologne, Germany, with the research work performed at the Institute of Climate and Energy, ICE-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Supervision: Prof. Astrid Kiendler-Scharr
2014 M.Sc. Energy and Environment
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece
Supervision: Prof. Spyros Pandis
Grants & Funding:
2023 – 2028 ERC Starting Grant (Principal Investigator)"Household Chemicals Amplifying Urban Aerosol Pollution"
2024 STEF Proposal for Zeppelin NT flights (Co-Investigator)
2021 – 2023 Klaus Tschira Boost Fund — German Scholars Organization (Principal Investigator) "Impacts of Emerging Atmospheric Emissions on Air Quality"
2020 – 2023 US EPA STAR Grant (Co-Investigator) "Evaluating Chemical Mechanisms with Recent Field Data to Account for VCP Emissions to Urban Ozone"
Awards & Honours:
2025 NASA Group Achievement Award — AEROMMA Study For outstanding achievements in advancing and enabling NASA's global systems
2024 Paul J. Crutzen Award for Early Career Scientists International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP)
2021 Publication of the Month Award Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
2020 CIRES Bronze Medal Outstanding execution of the FIREX-AQ mission — joint venture with NASA to improve understanding of air quality and climate impacts of fires
2020 CIRES Administrator's Award Planning and conduct of the largest interdisciplinary research project to study the composition, chemistry, and evolution of wildfire and prescribed fire smoke
2019 Gold Star Award — Outreach & Education NOAA, Boulder, USA
Publications & Metrics:
Total citations: 3,530 · h-index: 32 · i10-index: 45 (Google Scholar, April 2026)
First and/or corresponding author: 15+ peer-reviewed publications
Co-author: 30+ peer-reviewed publications in Nature Communications, Science Advances, GRL, ACP, and others
First author/co-author of more than 80 oral and poster presentations at international conferences (2014–present).
Online Tools & Databases
2021 COVID-AQS Database Online database for the scientific community to access and investigate the impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on urban air quality
Invited Seminars & Talks
2025 American Meteorological Society (AMS), USA
2025 American Geophysical Union (AGU), USA
2025 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
2024 Hellenic Association for Aerosol Research, Greece
2024 European Solvents Industry Group, Belgium
2024 European Geosciences Union (EGU), Austria
2023 Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2023 POF General Assembly
2021 IAMAS Early Career Scientist Committee
202 1AC-VC (organized by NASA, ESA, and NIES)
2020 Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms Conference (online)
20+ additional invited seminars at international universities and institutions across 6 countries (2015–present).
Supervision & Teaching
2022 – present Group Leader currently supervising 4 PhD students Institute of Climate and Energy (ICE-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
2020 – 2022 Supervision of Ph.D., Master's students, and Postdocs Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
2012 – 2013 Teaching Assistant — Mathematics (Bachelor level) Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
Major Field Campaigns
2024 CHANEL campaign to investigate the impacts of different urban emission sources on air quality using the atmospheric simulation chamber SAPHIR
2022 AEROMMA campaign onboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft to investigate the impacts of urban and marine emissions on air quality and climate in North America
2020 Zeppelin mission to investigate the impacts of the COVID-19 lockdowns on urban air pollution in Germany
2019 FIREX-AQ mission onboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft to investigate wildfires in the US
Professional Service
Peer reviewer: Nature Communications, Science Advances, Geophysical Research Letters, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Geophysical Research (2016–present).
Member: Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF); Hellenic Association for Aerosol Research; European Geosciences Union (EGU); American Geophysical Union (AGU).