Omiros
Giannakis

Research Scientist Director

IAASARS/NOA

A little about me

I received my B.Sc. in Physics, M.Sc. in Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics and Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece in 1998, 2001 and 2008 respectively. I was a Research Associate at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) for the period 2002-2005. From 2005 to 2016 I was a member of the permanent Research Support staff of IAASARS/NOA. In March 2017 I was promoted to Senior Scientist. Since September 2022 I serve as Research Scientist Director at IAASARS/NOA. My scientific work is related to space physics and includes the design and development of advanced computational AI/ML algorithms for the analysis of data and metadata obtained by the scientific instruments of various ESA space missions and experiments (EO, Science and HRE). I have experience in applying natural language processing techniques to extract relevant and structured information from space data, developing natural language processing pipelines to perform knowledge extraction tasks from scientific data, using advanced tools for the analysis of the effects of space radiation on spacecraft and their scientific instruments.

Participation in approx. 15 research projects (FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe, ESA, National) at various levels (Deputy H2020 Project Coordinator, PI, and Deputy PI for ESA projects, WP Leader). For the projects, in which I have/had the role of the PI, the projects awarded with a funding of ~1.3M€.

Member of the IAASARS/NOA Space Research and Technology Group (SRTG), which is active, among others, in the study of geospace, interplanetary space, magnetosphere dynamics, space weather, as well as planetary exploration.

Certified Evaluator of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of Greece (GSRT).

Teaching experience as Lecturer at the “Space Science Technologies and Applications” Master of Science of the department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of the Peloponnese.

Expertise Interests

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Natural Language Modelling

Processing and analysis of space-borne datasets

Space Physics

Space Weather

Effects on space electronics

Shielding simulations and optimisation

Single Event Effects simulation

Statistical Analysis

Data Management

Data Science

Data Modeling

Recent Projects

TACTICIAN (ESA funding, Role:PI)

The project’s core objective is to apply Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning (DL) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to automatically extract knowledge and insights from published research papers, journal articles, technical documentation, data, and metadata related to ESA science, EO missions and HRE experiments.


SAPS (ESA funding, Role: PI)

ESA’s Science Archives Publication System (SAPS) provides easy access to bibliographical information on scientific publications based on data obtained with ESA’s space science missions. The scientific publications are selected from the literature by field experts (ESA missions project scientists) and prepared for ingestion in SAPS together with additional metadata, related to the field of research, as well as geographical information on the institute of the author leading the research. The main objectives of SAPS are: (i) To provide information on the scientific performance of ESA’s space science missions by examining the refereed missions’ publications. The target is to support the evaluation of the scientific productivity of a space science mission and of how it evolves over time, as well supporting decision-making regarding future science missions., (ii) To provide an easier ingestion of publications metadata and potential links to data, (iii) To provide a central database of all ESA Space Science missions publications that could be used in the future by the Science Archives to link to.


SafeSpace (EU funding, Role: Deputy Project Coordinator)

The SafeSpace project aims at advancing space weather nowcasting and forecasting capabilities and, consequently, at contributing to the safety of space assets through the transition of powerful tools from research to operations (R2O). This will be achieved through the synergy of five well-established space weather models (CDPP solar disturbance propagation tool, EUHFORIA CME evolution model, ONERA Neural Network tool, IASB-BIRA plasmasphere model and ONERA Salammbô radiation belts code), which cover the whole Sun –interplanetary space –Earth’s magnetosphere chain. The combined use of these models will enable the delivery of a sophisticated model of the Van Allen electron belt and of a prototype space weather service of tailored particle radiation indicators. Moreover, it will enable forecast capabilities with a target lead time of 2 to 4 days, which is a tremendous advance from current forecasts, which are limited to lead times of a few hours.


Geant4-based Particle Simulation Facility in Greece for Future Science Mission Support (ESA funding, Role: Deputy PI)

The major vision of the G4G project is the establishment of a strategic, long-term capability of providing space science-related simulations of the interactions of particle radiation with the payloads and systems, both for future missions as well as for the data analysis of past and operating missions.


Time-Frequency Analysis (TFA) Toolbox (ESA funding, Role: WP Leader)
Characterisation of IoNospheric TurbulENce level by Swarm constellation (ESA funding, Role: WP Leader)
SREM and REM Data Consolidation (ESA funding, Role: WP Leader)
Advanced Solar Particle Events foreCasting System (ESA funding, Role: WP Leader)
Hellenic Evolution of Radiation data processing and Modelling of the Environment in Space (ESA funding, Role: WP Leader)
Swarm Investigation of the Role of High-Frequency (0.1-5 Hz) ULF Waves in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (ESA funding, Role: WP Leader)
Swarm for Earthquake Study (ESA funding, Role: WP Leader)
Monitoring, Analyzing and Assessing Radiation Belt Loss and Energization (EU funding, Role: WP Leader)

Drop me a line

Address

I. Metaxa & Vas. Pavlou St., GR-15236, Greece

Phone

+30 210 3490 857