ACTRIS - Key Persons


Adolfo Comerón

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Alek Piertruczuk

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Alfred Wiedensohler

Job Titles:
  • Professor Doctor

Aline van der Werf

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Anna Salonen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Officer, Administration
With 14 years of experience in public administration, finances and research funding, her main duties include financial planning and financial management, and the development and implementation of HR processes in ACTRIS ERIC. She is also involved in EU projects.

Barbara Dammers

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Bart Dils

Job Titles:
  • Delegate / Bulgaria

Beatrice Păduroiu

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Carmela Cornacchia

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert
  • Senior Technologist
She has a PhD at the University of Basilicata in water vapor and aerosol remote sensing. She collected long experience in promoting projects in collaboration with the private sector. She has been involved in ACTRIS starting from the ESFRI process preparation in 2015.

Cathrine Lund Myhre

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist
  • Expert
  • Permanent Expert
Myhre is an expert in measurements of aerosol and greenhouse gases and their sources, concentrations and long-term trends. She is working with the development and use of atmospheric observational networks and infrastructures, and access to observational data

Christian Plaß-Dülmer

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Christo Angelov

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Christos Papadopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Chrysanthos Savvides

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Doina Nicolae

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist
  • Delegate

Dr. Ralf Tillmann

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist
Dr. Ralf Tillmann has worked in the field of atmospheric chemistry for more than 20 years. He is head of the research group for Volatile Organic Compounds in the Troposphere at IEK-8 of the FZJ.

Eija Juurola

Job Titles:
  • Interim ACTRIS Director General

Elke Ludewig

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert / Belgium

Erik Swietlicki

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert / Switzerland

Francesca Ricciardi

Job Titles:
  • SAMU Officer
She has a PhD in Economics and Management at the University of Bari and 6 years of experience in economic research fields. She has been participated in ACTRIS since 2021 and she is involved in managerial activities of SAMU.

Gelsomina Pappalardo

Job Titles:
  • Vice - Chair
  • Delegate / Vice - Chair

Giulia Saponaro

Job Titles:
  • Senior Officer, Communications
Giulia manages the organization's communications and outreach. She is currently involved in the EU projects ATMO-ACCESS, RI-URBANS, and ENVRINNOV. Giulia holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences and an MBA in business communication and strategic management.

Giuseppe Gargano

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Hannele Korhonen

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Iwona Stachlewska

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Jan Svehla

Job Titles:
  • Delegate / Cyprus

Jean-Francois Doussin

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Jean-Marie Flaud - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Jeni Vasilescu

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Jochen Elberskirch

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Jochen Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Jonas Esche

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Karolina Begusch-Pfefferkorn

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Kjetil Tørseth

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Kristina Höhler

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist
  • Senior Researcher at KIT
As a senior researcher at KIT, Kristina Höhler investigates ice nucleating particles using the cloud simulation chamber AIDA and mobile instruments. Kristina is leading the CF CIS and the CCIce Unit.

Livio Belegante

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Lucas Alados Arboledas

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Lucia Mona

Job Titles:
  • National Research Council of Italy
  • Permanent Expert / Netherlands

Mads Rugaard Christensen

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Magnus Friberg

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Marcel Langer

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert / Italy

Mariola Jabłońska

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert / Romania

Martial Haeffelin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist
Martial Haeffelin has 25-year experience in atmospheric remote sensing research. He conducts research on cloud physical processes and remote sensing, as well as cloud effects on the solar resource for photovoltaic energy production. He is currently the Deputy Director of Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, in charge of Earth Observations, and acts as scientific director of ACTRIS-FR.

Martin Gysel-Beer

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Martine De Mazière

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
  • Senior Scientist
Martine De Mazière is a Belgian atmospheric scientist known for her work in atmospheric satellite observations. She is director general ad interim of the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy.

María Vallejo Abascal

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Matheos Papadakis

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Michalis Mouskos

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Michał Rybiński

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Mikhail Paramonov

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager
He has PhD from the University of Helsinki, and his background is in aerosol-cloud-climate interactions. He has been working in ACTRIS as a Project Manager since the summer of 2019.

Mikko Martikainen

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Officer
He is responsible for the tasks related to the establishment and running of ACTRIS ERIC administrational and financial processes.

Niku Kivekäs

Job Titles:
  • Senior Officer, Operations
Niku has a background in aerosol- and cloud research and has been setting up ACTRIS and its Head Office since 2014. He coordinates the interactions and planning and reporting of activities between ACTRIS Head Office, Central Facilities and National Facilities.

Odd Ivar Eriksen

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Paolo Laj

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Chair
He has been involved in the establishment of ACTRIS for more than 20 years. His research focuses on atmospheric composition variability and trends and authored more than 150 scientific papers. He currently serves in the GAW/WMO SSC and in the GCOS AOPC panel.

Petteri Kauppinen

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Pirjo Kontkanen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Legal Counsel
She has expertise in intellectual property rights in legal matters and negotiations concerning university research projects and EU research funding. Her main tasks over the last ten years are related to ESFRI research infrastructures.

Prof. Jean Sciare

Job Titles:
  • EEWRC Director, the Cyprus Institute

Rosa Petracca

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Sabine Philippin

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Sara Moa

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Silja Häme

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator
  • Finland Coordinator
She has a PhD in atmospheric aerosol research and has participated in ACTRIS preparations and implementation by performing administrative and development tasks since 2017.

Simone Gagliardi

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Stefan Reimann

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Stephane Sauvage

Job Titles:
  • Permanent Expert

Tanja Dreischuh

Job Titles:
  • Delegate

Terhi Kontkanen

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Officer
She has a Master of Science in information and knowledge management from Tampere University (TUNI) and has been working for ACTRIS since 2016.

Tuukka Petäjä

Job Titles:
  • Finland Director
  • Permanent Expert

Ulf Jonsell

Job Titles:
  • Delegate