Dr. Dimitris Akritidis
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Department of Meteorology and Climatology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
News
News | 30-10-2024
Atmospheric health burden across the century and the accelerating impact of temperature compared to pollution. New publication in Nature Communications. Special thanks go to Andrea Pozzer, Sara Bacer, and Brendan Steffens for leading this research and to all co-authors for their contributions.
News | 25-04-2024
On site participation in the EGU General Assembly 2024 in Vienna, Austria, with two abstracts:
News | 11-02-2024
New publication in the Journal of Environmental Research Letters titled Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario.
News | 03-05-2023
On site participation in the EGU General Assembly 2023 in Vienna, Austria, with two abstracts:
Future projection of ozone-related mortality under SSP3-7.0 scenario based on CMIP6 simulations (oral)
Impact of climate change on agro-climatic zones in Europe under different RCPs (poster)
News | 01-08-2022
Happy to join the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry Department for one year and collaborate again with Andrea Pozzer and Jos Lelieveld.
About
I was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and since my early high school days I remember myself being fascinated by the cause-and-effect relationships governing the physical world. Thus, I studied Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, where I received my BSc degree in 2003. Following my military service and driven by my role there as a meteorologist observer, in 2008 I obtained my MSc degree in Meteorology, Climatology & Atmospheric Environment (AUTh). In 2014 I completed my PhD (AUTh) under the supervision of Prof. Prodromos Zanis studying the background air pollution over Europe using regional climate and chemical-transport models. Afterwards, I joined the Atmospheric Chemistry Department of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 2016 I am working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Meteorology and Climatology, participating in several national and international research projects, as well as carrying out my personal research. Moreover, I served as a contributing author of the IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group I (WGI) Sixth Assessment Report (Chapter 6). Since August 2022, I am working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Atmospheric Chemistry Department of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, in collaboration with Dr. Andrea Pozzer.
Scientific Interests
Tropospheric ozone
Air quality
Stratosphere-troposphere exchange
Climate change
Air pollution and climate health impacts
Chemistry-climate interactions
Aerosols
Machine learning & deep learning
Skills & Tools
Python, Ferret, IDL, R, GrADS
shell scripting
MS Office, LaTeX
Flexpart, CAMx, WRF
Education
BSc in Physics
Department of Physics, AUTh, 2003
MSc in Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Environment
Department of Meteorology & Climatology, AUTh, 2008
PhD in Atmospheric Modeling
Department of Meteorology & Climatology, AUTh, 2014