Dr. Anastasios Anastasiadis

Dr. Anastasios Anastasiadis is a Research Director at the IAASARS of the National Observatory of Athens. He is an expert on High-energy phenomena in Space Plasma Physics and Plasma Astrophysics, Transport, Diffusion and Particle Acceleration processes in Heliophysics, Sun-Earth connection processes, Solar Flares and CMEs, Solar Energetic Particle Events, Radiation Environment, Space Weather, Radiation Belts Dynamics and Magnetospheric Physics.

Ms. Zoe Boutsi

Mrs. Z. Boutsi received her B.Sc. degree from the Dept. of Physics of NKUA, while in 2017 she completed her M.Sc. degree, in the field of "Space Science, Technologies and Applications" in the University of Peloponnese. Since November 2017 she is a PhD Candidate at the NKUA and a Research Fellow in the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, working mostly on the subject of space weather effects on Earth. Her research interests focus on Space Weather, Ground-based Magnetometry, Geomagnetic Disturbances (mostly, Geospace Magnetic Storms and Geomagnetically Induced Currents), Data Analysis, Wavelet Transforms and Remote Sensing.

Dr. Igino Coco

Dr. Coco graduated in Physics at the University of Pavia (Italy) in 2000, with an experimental thesis on the characterisation of a sensor for detection of buried explosives based on nuclear techniques. Then he completely changed topics, and began to work on ionospheric physics and magnetosphere – ionosphere coupling, mainly by means of ground based HF radars (SuperDARN network). During this period he was visiting student at the LPC2E-CNRS (Orléans, France), working with dr. Jean-Paul Villain on the analysis of SuperDARN data during impulsive events in the solar wind. After the PhD in Polar Sciences, obtained in 2005 at the University of Siena (Italy), he continued working as a Research Fellow in Rome, at the former "Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario" (now "Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali", IAPS), part of the "Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica" (INAF). In 2008 he has been visiting fellow at the Dartmouth College (Hanover, USA), working with Dr. Simon Shepherd. In 2009, he was deputed by the SuperDARN Italian PI, dr. Ermanno Amata, to the project management for the construction of the Italian SuperDARN radar Dome C East, at the Concordia station, in Antarctica.

In 2012 dr. Coco joined the ESA ground segment team of the Swarm mission, supervising the quality assessment of plasma data and coordinating the Electric Field Instrument Expert Group.

Since December 2016, Dr. Coco has a permanent research position at the "Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia" (INGV), in Rome. His main field of study is Space Weather, through the analysis of ionospheric parameters (electron density and temperature, plasma convection and electric field) both in situ (satellite measurements) and from ground (coherent scatter radars), following impulsive changes in the interplanetary medium (e.g. shocks, geomagnetic storms, ionospheric storms).

In the framework of INTENS, dr. Coco coordinates Work Package n. 6: "Dissemination", and is the reference person for the preparation and pre-treatment of Swarm plasma data, and for the elaboration of SuperDARN data taken into account for the geomagnetic storms case studies.

Dr. Ioannis A. Daglis

Dr. Ioannis A. Daglis is Professor of Space Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and IASA Faculty Member. He will act as the project manager, communicating with ESA, and co-ordinating the effort among project team members. Professor Daglis has managed – among others – the ESA projects SRREMs, SREM_DC, SEPCALIB and HERMES. He has been partner leader in 23 projects (7 EU-funded, 10 ESA-funded, 6 nationally funded); in 13 of these projects he was the consortium coordinator and project manager.

Dr. Omiros Giannakis

Dr. Omiros Giannakis is a Senior Scientist of the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) at the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece. He received a BSc in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – NKUA (Greece) in 1998, followed by an MSc by Research with Distinction in Astronomy, Astrophysics & Mechanics in 2001, and a PhD in Computational Astrophysics in 2008 both from the NKUA. He is an expert in space radiation models and analysis of the physical environment in space and its effects on space systems, shielding and interactions.

Dr. Fabio Giannattasio

Fabio Giannattasio obtained his PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2013 with a thesis on the dynamic behavior of the solar magnetic field at small and large spatio-temporal scales. From 2014 to 2016 he has been a PostDoc fellow at "Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma" (OAR) and at the Space Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology (IAPS), part of the "Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica" (INAF), where he worked on the spectropolarimetric observations of the solar atmosphere, the dynamic properties of solar magnetic field at small scales and the Sun-Earth interactions.

Since the end of 2016 he is Researcher at the "Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia" (INGV) in Rome. His research focuses on the study of the phenomena that are relevant for Space Weather, the ionospheric turbulence, the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, and he is enrolled in the group of applied geophysics.

For the INTENS project he downloaded and performed the preliminary analysis of Swarm data, and is the WP3 leader.

Dr. Maria Federica Marcucci

Dr. Maria Federica Marcucci is a confirmed Research Scientist at the "Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali" (IAPS), part of the "Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica" (INAF), since December 2001.

Her main research interest is the study of mass and energy transport processes at the terrestrial magnetopause and its effects in the magnetosphere and ionosphere by means of in situ measurements, e.g. Cluster data, and ground based observations, e.g. Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) data.

She is Co-Investigator of the CIS experiment on board CLUSTER and Co-Investigator of the SWA experiment on board Solar Orbiter. She was PI of the Particle Processing Unit for the Phase A study of the THOR - Turbulence Heating ObseRver mission.

From 2016, she is PI of the Dome C East radar of SuperDARN and she was responsible for the installation of the Dome C North radar successfully completed in January 2019.

In the framework of INTENS, dr. Marcucci takes part to the activities of WP 4 and WP 6.

Mr. Constantinos Papadimitriou

Mr. Constantinos Papadimitriou is a Data Analyst, working as a Research Associate in the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens, as well as in the private sector. He has extensive experience in data curation, analysis of time-series data with information-theoretic measures and non-linear techniques, Machine Learning applications and statistical modelling. He has participated in numerous ESA projects and his work has been published in many leading academic journals pertaining to Space Weather and Space Physics in general.

Dr. Silvia Pau

Dr. Silvia Pau graduated in Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in 2003.

Since 1998 she has a permanent position as a technician at the "Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia" (INGV), in Rome. In the first years she developed software for data analysis and organized scientific meetings and conferences. Now she develops web pages and since 2011 she also manages financial matters for scientific projects. Among the latest scientific projects she financially manages, there are FP7 projects (the funding programmes created by the European Union to support research in the European research area), H2020-MSCA-ITN projects (other funding programmes created by the European Union aiming at supporting the career development and training of researchers in all scientific disciplines through interdisciplinary, international and inter-sectorial mobility) and PNRA projects (Antarctic Research National Program). Since 2018 she coordinates and supports the management activities, from the submission phase to the conclusion, of the research projects of the department to which she belongs.

For INTENS project she cares of contractual and administrative matters.

Dr. Michael Pezzopane

Dr. Michael Pezzopane has been a researcher at the "Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia" since 2001. He got his Master Science in Physics at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy, and his Ph.D. in Geophysics at the "Alma Mater Studiorum" University of Bologna, Italy. His research interests mainly focus on: mid-latitude and low-latitude ionospheric behaviour for both quiet and disturbed conditions, radio wave propagation in the ionosphere, atmospheric gravity waves, autoscaling of vertical ionospheric soundings, electron density irregularities at low latitudes, E sporadic layer, spread-F, and three dimensional electron density modelling of the ionosphere. He is one of the two developers of the "Autoscala" algorithm, able to automatically scale vertical ionograms, which is installed in several ionosonde stations in Italy, Argentina, Russia and Poland. Together with Dr. Alessio Pignalberi he has recently developed a method, called IRI UP, to real time update the IRI model and a new NeQuick topside formulation based on Swarm data.

He is author/co-author of more than 75 papers published in scientific peer-reviewed journals. He is one of the authors of the patent "Digital Ionosonde". He has been, and still is, supervisor of Master Science in Physics students and Ph.D. in Geophysics students. He was several times visiting scientist at the Physics and Astronomy Laboratory of the Universidade do Vale do Paraiba (UNIVAP) – São José dos Campos, Brazil. He was Guest Editor for three special issues in Advances in Space Research and he is Editor of "Annals of Geophysics". In 2013, he was awarded the first prize for the best communication in Geophysics presented at the XCIX National Congress of the Italian Physical Society, held in Trieste.

In the framework of INTENS, Dr. Pezzopane is involved in WP4 "High-latitude data analysis" and WP5 "Mid- and Low-latitude data analysis", for which he will contribute to the discussion of the analyses results, specifically concerning the RODI (rate of change of the electron density index) elaborations performed for several geomagnetic storms case studies. He is also involved in the WP6 "Dissemination".

Dr. Roberta Tozzi

Dr. Tozzi graduated in Physics at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in 1999, with a thesis on the nonlinear analysis of the geomagnetic field secular variation recorded during the last century. She then took a PhD at University of Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum", during which she extended and went more in depth in the investigations performed for graduation. In the following years she worked as a temporary research scientist on geomagnetic jerks and widened her knowledge and command of geomagnetic models as well as of mathematical methods, as for instance bispectral analysis, natural orthogonal components and empirical mode decomposition, as tools to extract information from geophysical time series.

Since December 2010, Dr. Tozzi has a permanent research position at "Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia" (INGV), in Rome and the focus of her studies has gradually moved from internal geomagnetism to solar terrestrial interactions and space weather. She has extensively worked with Swarm magnetic data, for instance more recently also on geomagnetically induced currents.

In the framework of INTENS, Dr. Tozzi coordinates Work Package n. 4: "High-latitudes data analysis".

Mr. G. Vasalos

Mr. G. Vasalos graduated in 2016 from the Department of Informatics and Telematics of Harokopio University of Athens and he is now a MSc student in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is currently working as a research associate in the development of digital services and applications within ENIGMA "HellENIc GeoMagnetic Array" and other projects. He is an expert in web-pages design; Databases, Distributed Systems, Parallel Programming, Internet Application Technologies and he is also interested in the subjects of Artificial Intelligence Applications, No Relational Databases, Game Theory, and Signal Analysis.