Emmanouel Sarris

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Professor Emeritus, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. Born in Athens, Greece in 1945, he received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece (1967), the M.Sc. (1971) and Ph.D. (1973) in Space Physics both from the University of Iowa, U.S.A. (with J.A.Van Allen),. He has worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University (1974-76) and as Research Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut (1976-77). In 1977 he was elected Professor of Electrodynamics at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Thrace and Director of the Space Research Laboratory 1977. He has been elected Dean of the School of Engineering (1986-89) and Director of the Institute of Ionospheric and Space Physics of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece (1990-96). His research interest and experience is on Space Plasma Electrodynamics; Design, Construction and Testing of Space Instruments and Systems; Satellite Communications; Satellite Remote Sensing. He has been or is Co- Investigator or Principal Investigator in the International Space Missions: Ulysses, Geotail, Interball-Aurora, Interball-Tail, ACE, Cluster and Spektr-R. He has published more than 300 refereed publications. He is or has been Member of the Standing Committee on Space Science, ESF (1979-86), COSPAR Plenary Council, National Representative, COSPAR Commission D1 Chairman, (1992-98). He is Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) and of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S). He has been honored with his election to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, (1992), with the Award for Academic Excellence (1994), with NASA Awards for outstanding contributions to the Ulysses and Geotail Missions and with the ESA Award for outstanding contribution to the Ulysses Mission. He is Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens (elected 2003) and Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (elected 2003).
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