Silas Michaelides
Chief Operating Manager, ERATOSTHENES Center of Excellence
Areas of Expertise
Meteorology, Climatology, Remote Sensing
Bio
He is currently the Chief Operating Manager of Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence. Formerly, he was the Director of the Cyprus’ Department of Meteorology where he worked for over forty years. For nine years he was the Permanent Representative of Cyprus with the World Meteorological Organization and represented the Government of Cyprus to other International Organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology, an MSc. in Agricultural Meteorology, a Master’s degree in Public Sector Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He has more than 200 publications listed in Scopus, published several books and coordinated several Journal Special Issues. He has organized several Conferences and Workshops. He has taught Meteorology and Climatology to postgraduate students and supervised Masters and Doctoral theses. He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Member of the American Meteorological Society, Member of the Greek Meteorological Society and Member Emeritus of the European Geosciences Union.
Affiliate organization
Eratosthenes is a new, autonomous, and self-sustained Centre of Excellence of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and it has been established through the ‘EXCELSIOR’, H2020 Widespread Teaming Phase 2 project. The newly established centre has been created as a result of upgrading the existing Remote Sensing and Geo-Environment Lab, which has been operating within the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology since 2007. The vision of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence is to become a world-class Digital Innovation Hub for Earth Observation, space technology and Geospatial Information and to be the reference Centre in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa. The Digital Innovation Hub will create an ecosystem which combines state-of-the-art remote sensing, data management and processing technologies, cutting – edge research opportunities, targeted education services and promotion of entrepreneurship. In order to be dynamic and innovative, the Digital Innovation Hub will be based on two major infrastructures, which are a Satellite Ground Receiving Station and a Ground-based atmospheric remote sensing station. ERATOSTHENES Centre of excellence is paving the way for Cyprus to enter the space arena.
info@spacebic.cy
+35725002908
82 Franklin Roosevelt, 3012, Lemesos, Cyprus
