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Dr. Anna Belehaki is research director in the National Observatory of Athens and head of the Ionospheric Group. She received a Ph.D. on Space Physics in 1992 from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and immediately after, she joined the Canadian Network for Space Research of the University of Alberta in Canada as post-doctoral fellow. In 1995 she was elected in a research position in the National Observatory of Athens. Dr. Belehaki has a long experience on ionospheric experiments and monitoring techniques, on space weather prediction and forecast models for ionospheric effects, on the development of operational space weather services and on the study of solar wind-magnetospheric-ionospheric interactions for the modelling of the topside ionosphere and the plasmasphere.
She has published more than 90 papers in peer review international scientific journals and participated to more than 120 scientific conferences.
Key responsibilities:
Coordinator of the European Commission Horizon 2020 TechTIDE Project (2017 - 2020) : "Warning and Mitigation of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances Effects"
Principal Investigator of the Athens Digisonde project - upgraded to DPS4D in 2015
Director of the new multi-year project " Pilot Network for the Identification of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances ", aiming at the establishment of the first observational network for tracking TIDs
Principal Investigator of the DIAS operational system - new products available
Scientific manager of the ESPAS project (Near-Earth Space Data Infrastructure of e-Science, funded by the EC, FP7 eInfrastructures)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Academy of Finland
Community building activities:
From 2008 to 2012 she was chairing the Management Committee of the COST Action ES0803 “Developing Space Weather Products and Services in Europe”, a network among 26 countries where 85 experts from all over the world participate.
Since 2009 she is co-chairing the Programme Committee of the European Space Weather Weeks.
In 2010 together with the core group of COST Action ES0803 she established the Journal for Space Weather and Space Climate – SWSC, for which she is serving as Editor in Chief. Impact Factor 2.519
Books:
Edited by: Anna Belehaki, Mike Hapgood and Juergen Watermann
Edited by: Anna Belehaki, Mike Hapgood and Juergen Watermann
ESPAS provides an e-Infrastructure to support access to a wide range of archived observations and model derived data for the near-Earth space environment, extending from the Earth's middle atmosphere up to the outer radiation belts. To this end, ESPAS will serve as a central access hub for researchers who wish to exploit multi-instrument multipoint data for scientific discovery, model development and validation, and data assimilation, among others. Observation based and model enhanced scientific understanding of the physical state of the Earth's space environment and its evolution is critical to advancing space weather and space climate studies, two very active branches of current scientific research.
ESPAS offers an interoperable data infrastructure that enables users to find, access, and exploit near-Earth space environment observations from ground-based and spaceborne instruments and data from relevant models, obtained from distributed repositories. In order to facilitate efficient user queries ESPAS allows a highly flexible workflow scheme to select and request the desired data sets.
ESPAS has the strategic goal of making Europe a leading player in the efficient use and dissemination of near-Earth space environment information offered by institutions, laboratories and research teams in Europe and worldwide, that are active in collecting, processing and distributing scientific data. Therefore, ESPAS is committed to support and foster new data providers who wish to promote the easy use of their data and models by the research community via a central access framework. ESPAS is open to all potential users interested in near-Earth space environment data, including those who are active in basic scientific research, technical or operational development and commercial applications.
DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-1949-2
ISBN: 978-2-7598-1949-2
April 2017
174 pages
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