Georgios Tsagkogeorgas

Tsagkogeorgas Georgios studied Natural Sciences at the Hellenic Open University. As an M.Sc. student investigated the correlations between cosmic rays and climate in the Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory of the Physics Department of the University of Patras, Hellas. As a fellow of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (CLOUD Project), he is a Ph.D. student at the Leibnitz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Germany. The subject of his PhD thesis is the investigation of hygroscopic growth and activation of aerosol particles which originated from ion-induced nucleation and subsequently grew to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). He is in charge of utilizing the stationary version of the Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator (LACIS) and a Droplet Measurement Technology (DMT) CCN-counter for measuring hygroscopic growth and particle activation. In addition to measurements, he focuses on the analysis of the influences of different parameters on hygroscopic growth, activation and the precipitation process.