Last update: Nov 2022
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name, First name: Gkatzelis, Georgios
Nationality: Greek
Education:
2017 Dr. rer. nat. Chemistry (summa cum laude)
Chemistry Department, University of Cologne, Germany, with the research work performed at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Supervision: Prof. Astrid Kiendler-Scharr
2014 M.Sc. Energy and Environment
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece
Supervision: Prof. Spyros Pandis
Current Position:
2022 – present Group Leader
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Previous Positions:
2020 – 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
2018 – 2020 Research Scientist I
Chemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA, in collaboration with Colorado University
2011 Research Assistant
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece
Current grants:
2021 – 2023 Principal investigator of the Klaus Tschira Boost Fund granted by the German Scholars Organization titled: "Impacts of Emerging Atmospheric Emissions on Air Quality"
2020 – 2023 Co-investigator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Grant called STAR titled: "Evaluating Chemical Mechanisms with Recent Field Data to Account for the Contributions of Volatile Chemical Product Emissions to Urban Ozone"
2020 – 2021 Co-investigator of the Klark County, Las Vegas, USA Grant titled: "Las Vegas Field Measurements of Volatile Chemical Product and Mobile Source Emissions:"
Outstanding scientific achievements:
Awards
2021 Best poster award at the European Aerosol Conference
2021 Award for the publication of the month by Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
2020 CIRES bronze medal for outstanding execution of the FIREX-AQ mission, a joint venture with NASA to improve our understanding of air quality and climate impacts of fires
2020 CIRES administrator's award for the planning and conduct of the largest interdisciplinary research project ever to study the composition, chemistry, and evolution of wildfire and prescribed fire smoke
2019 Gold star award in the field of outreach and education at NOAA, Boulder, USA
2016, 2017 2 student travel awards by Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF) to participate in the European Aerosol Conference
Science Dissemination
2021 Invited seminar by the IAMAS Early Career Scientist Committee
2021 Invited seminar at the AC-VC organized by NASA, ESA, and NIES
2021 Online database for our scientific community to access and investigate the impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on urban air quality, COVID-AQS
2020 Invited seminar at the online Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms Conference
2015 – present 10 invited seminars at international Universities/Institutions in 6 countries
2016 – present First and/or corresponding author of 7 publications and co-author of 21 publications
2014 – present First author/co-author of more than 80 oral/poster presentations at conferences
Supervision of graduate students and teaching
2020 – present Supervision of Ph.D. students,
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
2012 – 2013 Teaching Assistant for Bachelor students – Mathematics, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
Reviewing activities
2016 – present Acting reviewer of manuscripts for Geophysical Research Letters, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Measurements Techniques, Environmental Science, Journal of Geophysical Research
Memberships in scientific societies
2016 – present Member of Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF)
2015 – present Member of Hellenic Association for Aerosol Research
2015 – present Member of the European and American Geophysical Unions
International collaborations
Joint field missions:
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
2018 The New York Investigation of Consumer Emissions (NY-ICE) and Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) campaign using the NOAA mobile laboratory to investigate emerging urban pollution sources in New York City, US
2016 Simulation chamber study at the University of Manchester
2016 Winter field campaign in Beijing, China to investigate urban secondary pollution
2015 Simulation chamber study in Jülich, Germany
2013 Winter field campaign in Athens, Greece, to investigate the impact of biomass burning on urban air
Current major collaboration partners:
2018 – present Prof. Steven Brown and Dr. Carsten Warneke, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
Investigating atmospheric emissions and chemical reactions that affect air quality and climate, with a future collaborative mission being the AEROMMA 2023
2018 – present Dr. Matthew Coggon, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO, USA
Evaluating chemical mechanisms to account for the contribution of urban emissions
2012 – present
Prof. Spyros Pandis, University of Patras, Greece, and Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Atmospheric aerosol modeling
Other collaboration partners:
2016 – present Prof. Keding Lu and Prof. Yuanhang Zhang, Peking University, Beijing, China
2018 – present Dr. James H. Crawford, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
2018 – present Prof. Albert Presto, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
2018 – present Prof. Jose Jimenez, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
2019 – present Prof. Andre Prevot, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2020 – present Prof. Timothy H. Bertram, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA