Helena Flocas is a Full Professor at the Department of Physics (Section of Environmental Physics-Meteorology) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Thessaloniki (1987), an M.Sc. in Meteorology from the University of Reading, UK (1990), and a Ph.D. in Meteorology and Climatology from the University of Thessaloniki (1993). She was tenured as a Lecturer in 2000 and promoted to Full Professor in 2018. Her research focuses on Atmospheric Dynamics, Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorology, and Climate Variability in the Mediterranean basin. She has published over 110 peer-reviewed journal articles, 200 conference papers, and 13 book contributions, with a total citation count exceeding 2,500 (H-index 26). She has supervised 6 completed PhD students and over 53 postgraduate students. Dr. Flocas has coordinated 7 projects out of 60 total participations in research initiatives. She serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical and Applied Climatology , Climate , Global Nest , and Meteorology , and has acted as a guest editor for other journals. She has reviewed manuscripts for over 40 scientific journals and has been recognized with scholarships from the National Institution of Scholarships (undergraduate) and NATO (postgraduate studies in the UK). Her work emphasizes understanding Mediterranean climate extremes, cyclone dynamics, and environmental interactions. She has contributed to developing indices for forecasting heavy rainfall and improving numerical weather prediction models in the region. Her research also explores links between the Indian monsoon and Mediterranean climate patterns.
