Vassilis Amiridis (VA) was born in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1971. He received his B.Sc. in Physics, M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, 2000 and 2006, respectively. Since 2006, VA is a Researcher of the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) in Greece

Eleni Marinou graduated from the Applied Physics at the Applied Sciences Department of the National Technical University of Athens in 2010. She received her M.Sc. in the field of “Environmental Physics” from the Physics Department of the Kapodistrian University of Athens (2013). She acquired her PhD diploma on the study of the vertical distribution of desert dust and condensation nuclei over the Mediterranean from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017).

Alexandra Tsekeri (AT) was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1981. She received her B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece, in 2005 and her Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York (CUNY), USA, in 2011.

I have studied physics and environmental physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and atmospheric physics and climate modelling at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany. I have worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, the department of Geosciences, Aarhus University, Denmark, the Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics lab, University of Oxford, UK and my latest assignment is at the National Observatory of Athens.

Gialitaki Anna was born in 1987 in Athens, Greece. She graduated from the Physics Department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is currently a student at the postgraduate program of the same department entitled “Environmental Physics”.

Rizos Konstantinos was born in Athens, Greece in 1989. He received his B.Sc. in Physics in 2012, and his M.Sc. in Environmental Physics in 2015, all from the Physics Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Then he started a new position as a Ph.D. candidate at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Emmanouil Proestakis graduated from the Department of Applied Physics at the Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) - Greece (2011). He received his MSc in the field of “Environmental Physics” from the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) of the University of Bremen – Germany (2013). In early 2018 he acquired his PhD diploma on the field of atmospheric remote sensing from space for depicting the aerosol connection with atmospheric electricity from the University of Patras (UoP) – Greece.

Sotirios Mallios received his B.Sc. in Physics with an orientation in Electronics, Computers, Telecommunications and Control from the Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in 2005. In 2015 he earned his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Dr Voudouri Kalliopi Artemis (KAV) finished her PhD in the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2019. With more than 9 years of experience, she is an expert in performing measurements with lidar systems including systematic calibration, and maintenance. Her main scientific interests lie in the field of Atmospheric Environment and Physics of Atmosphere, and more specifically on aerosol geometrical/optical properties, using ground-based data from active and passive remote sensing.

Drakaki Eleni was born on 1985 in Athens. She received her B.Sc. in Physics and her M.Sc. in Environmental Physics/Meteorology from the University of Athens in 2009 and 2012 respectively.tory of Athens (NOA).

Tsikoudi Ioanna was born in 1994 in Athens, Greece. She graduated from the Physics Department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and she obtained her MSc degree in 2019, in the field of “Environmental Physics”, from the same Department.

Thanasis Georgiou is currently PhD student, working on improving Numerical Weather Prediction of Aerosol-related physical variables through Data Assimilation.

Kampouri Anna was born in 1986 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She graduated from the Physics Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed her M.Sc. degree in 2018, in the field of "Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Environment”, from the Department of Geology in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Peristera Paschou comes from Lefkopigi Kozani, Greece and she was born in 1994. She is a graduate of the Physics Department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and she obtained her M.Sc. degree in 2018, in the field of "Environmental Physics", also from the Physics Department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Papatheochari Stavroula studied Environmental Science at the Aegean University of Mytilene island, where she graduated in 2004. She acquired her Master's degree (MSc) on Waste Management, in 2011 from the Hellenic Open University. Professionally, she is active in national, EU and international funded projects' management and implementation from 2007.

George Katoufas was born in 1995 in Athens, Greece. He graduated from the School of Mechanical Engineering of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where he specialised in Industrial Management and Operations Research.

Metallinos Spiros graduated from high school at Corfu in 1993 and began his studies at the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). At the same department he worked at the Computer Laboratory and later was employed as technical support for the AUTH Central Library007.

Ioanna Mavropoulou was born in 1982 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied at the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Department of Applied Physics, in National Technical University of Athens. She worked since 2008 as a manager in multinational retail companies.

Maria Tsichla was born in Athens in 1994. She graduated from the Physics Department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2017 and she obtained her MSc degree in the field of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics from the same Department in 2019.

Pavlos Kollias is a Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University – State University of New York and has a joint appointment with the Department of Environmental and Climate Sciences at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research focuses on the understanding of the microphysical, dynamical and radiative processes that act at the cloud- and meso-scale and their accurate representation in numerical models. He is also interested in radar technology and the development and application of novel phased-array and spaceborne radars in weather and climate research.

Stavros Solomos was born in Athens, Greece in 1976. He received his B.Sc. in Physics, M.Sc. in Environmental Physics / Meteorology and PhD in Meteorology / Atmospheric Modeling from the University of Athens, Greece in 2001, 2003 and 2011 respectively. Since 2013, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens.

Antonis Gkikas graduated in 2004 from the Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering Department of the Technological Education Institute of Crete (branch of Chania, Greece). In 2007, he received his MSc degree in Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics. His PhD thesis (2012) dealt with the study of aerosol episodes in the Mediterranean basin

Vasiliki Daskalopoulou was born in 1989 in Diavolitsi Messinia, Greece. She received her B.Sc. degree from the Department of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in 2015 and completed her M.Sc. degree in 2017, in the field of "Space Science, Technologies and Applications", granted from the University of Peloponnese and the National Observatory of Athens (NOA).

Stelios Kazadzis (SK) has 20 years of experience in basic and applied research in Atmospheric Physics. He studied Physics, MSc on atmospheric and environmental Physics and a PhD on solar radiation measurements and applications. He currently has the position of the Senior researcher at the PMODWRC leading the world optical depth research and calibration center. SK has received two Marie Curie grants as fellow and one as PI and has working experience in solar and atmospheric composition measurements and modeling. ...

Vasileios Barlakas (VB) was born in 1986 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his BSc in Physics and his MSc in Environmental Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2012, VB moved to Germany (Leipzig) to do his PhD in light scattering theory at the Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)...

Nikolaos Siomos graduated from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in 2011. He received his master's degree in Environmental Physics from the Physics Department of the AUTh in 2013. He obtained his PhD in Climatology and classification of the optical and microphysical properties of aerosols using terrestrial remote sensing techniques in 2018. '

Ioannis Binietoglou graduated fom the Applied Physics at the Applied Sciences Department of the NTUA in 2006. In 2008 he graduated from the master of arts program History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in the Philosophy and History of Science Department of the University of Athens. From 2011 to 2014 he worked on aerosol remote sensing using lidar in the CNR-IMAA at Potenza, Italy. He obtained his PhD in atmospheric remote sensing from the University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy in 2014.