Research Associate
Kyriakoula Papachristopoulou, holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Patras and an MSc in Environmental Physics from the Physics Department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and currently she is a PhD candidate at NKUA.
She currently works as a research associate in the Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens, while focusing on the impact of clouds and aerosols (especially dust) and their profiles on solar radiation budget using surface, satellite and model’s reanalysis data. Also, she is working on short term solar radiation/energy forecasting using satellite observations and assessment using ground-based measurements.