Dr. Michael Foumelis
Background
Michael Foumelis is a geologist-geophysicist specialized in geodetic GPS and SAR interferometric applications for geohazards. Since 2012 he holds the position of an internal researcher at the Science, Applications and Future Technologies Department of the European Space Agency (ESA). During 2010 and 2011 he was an adjunct Lecturer in the Geography Department of the Harokopio University of Athens (HUA). He obtained his degree in Geology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He has received scholarships from NKUA and the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece for postgraduate and doctoral studies respectively. During his MSc, at the Department of Dynamics, Tectonics and Applied Geology of NKUA, he worked on Remote Sensing and GIS for geohazards' assessment, whereas for his PhD at the Geophysics Department of NKUA on crustal deformation monitoring. He has several publications in scientific journals and international conference proceedings and participated in numerous research projects funded by national and international organizations. He has been invited speaker in several postgraduate courses.
Recent projects
- Looking inside changing cities from space, ESA jointly with CSA, SOAR2 Announcement of Opportunities, SOAR-EU2 initiative, Project ID 16825, 2014-2016.
- Revisiting of Santorini Volcano – Deformation Monitoring by ALOS PALSAR-2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 2013-2015.
- Novel methodologies for the assessment of risk of ground displacement. Bilateral project Greece-China, General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece (GSRT), 2012-2015.
- Operational management in Development Association of West Athens (ASDA) municipalities for civil protection and natural and environmental hazards defense. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), 2010-2011.
- High resolution SAR Interferometry for monitoring the Rio-Antirio bridge (Western Greece): a case study in the frame of Terrafirma-X project. German Aerospace Center (DLR), project GEO0904, 2010-2011.
Recent publications
- Foumelis, M., Mitraka, Z., Cuccu, R., Desnos, Y-L. & Engdahl, M., 2015. Moving from Temporal Coherence to Decorrelation Time of Interferometric Measurements Exploiting ESA’s SAR Archive. European Space Agency, FRINGE ’15
- Kalogirou, V., Ferrazzoli, P., Della Vecchia, A. & Foumelis, M., 2014. On the SAR backscatter of burned forests: A model-based study in C-band over burned pine canopies. TGRS, 52 (10), 6205 – 6215, doi: 10.1109/GRS.2013.2295594.
- Foumelis, M., Fountoulis, I., Papanikolaou, D.I. & Papanikolaou, D., 2013. Geodetic evidence for passive control of a major Miocene tectonic boundary on the contemporary deformation field of Athens (Greece). Annals of Geophysics, 56, 6, S0674, doi:10.4401/ag-6238.
- Foumelis, M., Trasatti, E., Papageorgiou, E., Stramondo, S. & Parcharidis, I., 2013. Monitoring Santorini volcano (Greece) breathing from space. Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggs135.
- Diakakis, M., Foumelis, M., Gouliotis, G. & Lekkas, E., 2011. Preliminary flood hazard and risk assessment in Western Athens metropolitan area. 9th International Hydrogeological Congress, In: Advances in the Research of Aquatic Environment, N. Lambrakis, G. Stournaras & K. Katsanou (eds), Environmental Earth Sciences, Springer, vol. 1, 147-154.
