Governing Board

Dr Emmanuel Rammos

President

Has more than 40 years experience in industry, international organisations and public functions. Started his carreer in PHILIPS– France, involved in pioneering work in satellite TV, including the invention of the world first commercial flat antennas.

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Costas Synolakis

Vice-President​

Costas Synolakis is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California. He studies the impact of natural hazards, and particularly tsunamis, extreme flooding events and climate change on beaches.

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Nick Sergis

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Nick Sergis is a researcher in the field of Space Physics. From 2006 to 2020 he worked at the Office of Space Research and Technology of the Academy of Athens in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL).

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Ioannis A. Daglis

Member of Governing Board​

Ioannis A. Daglis is Professor of Space Physics at the University of Athens. He is an expert in solar-terrestrial coupling processes, particle radiation and space weather; his work is mainly focused on the dynamics of energetic particles and magnetic storms in geospace.

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Athena Coustenis

Member of Governing Board​

Dr Athena Coustenis (HDR, KLH) is an astrophysicist, Director of Research CNRS at Paris Observatory. She specializes in Planetary Sciences. Her research is devoted to the investigation of planetary atmospheres and surfaces, their origins and evolution, with emphasis on the habitable conditions in the Solar System and beyond.

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Stamatios Krimigis

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Dr. Stamatios (Tom) Krimigis is Emeritus Head of the Space Exploration Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), President of the Academy of Athens (2024) where he occupies the Chair of Science of Space and Applications, has built instruments that have flown to all 9 classical planets beginning with Mariner 4 to Mars in 1965 and ending with New Horizons to Pluto in 2015; also the Moon, the asteroid Eros, and the Parker Solar Probe to the Sun in 2018, and is Principal Investigator on NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 Interstellar Mission to the outer planets and the Galaxy.

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Constantin Mavrocordatos

Member of Governing Board

Constantin Mavrocordatos is a seasoned space technology expert with over 35 years of experience in project development and innovation. He earned both a postgraduate degree and a PhD in Electronics from Sup’Aero (Toulouse) in 1990. His career began in 1989 at Alcatel Space (now Thales), where he led studies for the French space agency CNES and the European Space Agency (ESA), focusing on pioneering Earth Observation radar missions.

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