Ioannis A. Daglis | ISARS

Dr Ioannis A. Daglis

Research Professor in Space Sciences.
Director, Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens

sun Dr. Ioannis A. Daglis is currently the Director of the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing (ISARS) at the National Observatory of Athens (NOA). He worked on his PhD in Space Plasma Electrodynamics at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (formerly Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy) in Germany and received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace in 1991.

His research experience and specialization lies in the area of solar system astrophysics and space applications. He has published more than 65 refereed scientific publications with over 1200 citations, and has edited 3 monographs, one of which is "recommended teaching material" for Space Sciences by the UN's Office for Outer Space. Dr. Daglis has given 25 invited talks and 105 contributed papers at 65 scientific conferences.

He has served as evaluation expert for the US National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, Academy of Finland , INTAS, FONDECYT Chile, Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology, and the European Commission in Brussels . In particular, during the past 3 years he was appointed by the European Commission as Chairman and Vice-Chairman in a number of Evaluation Panels for Physics research proposals submitted under the HRM MCA Programme of the 6 th Framework Programme.

In addition to his duties as ISARS Director, Dr. Daglis currently serves as Head of the Department for Education Quality at the Pedagogical Institute (Greek Ministry for Education), as Head of Greek Delegation to the High-Level Space Policy Group (responsible for the definition of the joint EU-ESA space programme), as National Representative of Greece at the Specific Programme "Space" of the 7 th Framework Programme, as Board Member of the Greek Research & Technology Network S.A., as Member of the Greek National Astronomical Committee, as elected Board Member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society, as Member of the Solar System Working Group (advisory committee of ESA), and as the Editor for Magnetospheric Physics in Annales Geophysicae (the journal of the European Geosciences Union in the field of Solar-Terrestrial Physics).