Dr. Dimitris Akritidis
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Department of Meteorology and Climatology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Department of Meteorology and Climatology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
News | 13-05-2025 I recently returned from the EGU General Assembly 2025 in Vienna. It was an exciting week with science updates, collaboration, and reconnecting with colleagues from around the world. This year I had the opportunity to:
Co-convene the Session of Atmospheric Science for Action: Linking Air Quality, Climate, Health, Equity, and Policy.
Present a poster titled Unraveling the health impacts of local and cross-border air pollution.
Co-author the following presentations
Health gains from particulate air pollution controls in China.
Anthropogenic aerosol-induced changes in radiative forcing and temperature over the Mediterranean.
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.
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.
Tropospheric ozone
Air quality
Stratosphere-troposphere exchange
Climate change
Air pollution and climate health impacts
Chemistry-climate interactions
Aerosols
Machine learning & deep learning
Python, Ferret, IDL, R, GrADS
shell scripting
MS Office, LaTeX
Flexpart, CAMx, WRF
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