Καρατζάς Κωνσταντίνος

Kostas Karatzas is a Professor for Environmental Informatics at the School of Mechanical Engineering (MechEng), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, where he founded and is leading the Environmental Informatics Research Group.

Kostas Karatzas is currently teaching Informatics, Environmental Informatics and Air Pollution at a graduate level (MechEng). He also teaches (i) Computational Methods in Environmental Physics, (ii) Development of Environmental information Services (iii) Air Pollution and (v) Biomedical Engineering and Global Environmental Challenges at an MSc level, at the School of Physics, the School of Civil Engineering and the School of Medicine at AUTh. In the past Kostas has lectured at MSc and PhD courses as well as at industry seminars and summer schools, in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain, and served as a visiting research professor at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI).

Kostas holds an Integrated Masters and a Doctor degree in Mechanical Engineering, and works mainly in the fields of (a) environmental informatics, (b) urban air quality monitoring, modelling, assessment and management systems, (c) computational intelligence/machine learning methods and tools for mechanical engineering and health (with applications including environment, energy, tribology, aeromechanics, exhaust aftertreatment modelling, allergy, aerobiology, etc.), (d) quality of life – environment related – ICT services, (e) citizen science. His research is interdisciplinary and cross domain: Kostas has participated in (and led) more than 30 research projects in the aforementioned domains in the last 25 years, has authored/co-edited 5 books, published more than 250 papers in international scientific journals and conference proceedings (Google scholar link) and served as a guest editor to scientific publications. He is currently a member of the international advisory board of the Harvest project (Harvesting solar PV data for improved meteorology, University of Eastern Finland and FMI, 2022-26), while he served as an advisor for CLEEN’s Measurement, Monitoring and Environmental Efficiency Assessment (MMEA) research programme, as a member of the board of the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, and as an Associate Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium). Kostas has a long experience as a member of COST actions for the last 20 years, including positions of MC member and vice-chairman. In addition, he has been a member of various programme committees, scientific and advisory boards in international conferences in Environmental Informatics and Computational Intelligence for more than 20 years and has/is supervising several PhD and MSc theses in Environmental Informatics-environmental information analysis and modeling in various countries. Among other activities he is the co-founder and co-editor of a Springer book series titled “Environmental Informatics and Modelling” and he was one of the lecturers of the International training course on Low-cost Environmental Monitoring – from sensor principles to novel services. Currently he is a member of the Task Force on «Definition of clinical-relevant thresholds of allergen-exposure for analysis of outcomes in AIT» of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and of the Air Pollution working group of the European Citizen Science Association. He is also member of the core group being responsible for the organization of the bi-annual international Air Quality conference, while he has been appointed as a governing board member of the Citizen Science Hub of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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