Last update: Nov 2022
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name, First name: Gkatzelis, Georgios
Researcher unique identifiers: ORCID, Google Scholar
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
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
2011 Research Assistant
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece
Grants:
2024 Co-investigator of the STEF Proposal for Zeppelin NT flights
2023 – 2028 Principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant titled: "Household Chemicals Amplifying Urban Aerosol Pollution"
2022 Principal investigator of the CRR Pilot Research Project titled: " Investigation of the impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on urban air quality"
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 Paul J. Crutzen Award for early career scientists from the international commission on atmospheric chemistry and global pollution
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 Student travel awards by Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF) to participate in the European Aerosol Conference
Science Dissemination
2025 Invited seminar at the American Meteorological Society, USA
2025 Invited seminar by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons
2024 Invited seminar by the Hellenic Association for Aerosol Research, Greece
2024 Invited seminar at the European Solvents Industry Group, Belgium
2024 Invited seminar at the European Geophysical Union, Austria
2023 Invited seminar by ETH, Switzerland2023 Invited seminar by the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH
2023 Invited seminar by the POF General Assembly
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. and Master 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 Nature Communications, Sceince Advacnces, 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
Recent joint field missions:
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