Dr. Katerina Garane studied Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and received her degree in 1999. She then attended the Postgraduate Program “Environmental Physics” of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and was awarded the Master’s Degree in 2001. She successfully defended her doctoral thesis, entitled “Contribution to the study of changes in the spectrum of ultraviolet solar radiation on various time scales”, in December 2007 (scholarship from the “Heraclitus” program EPEAEK of the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs).
Today she is a permanent member of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in addition to teaching courses in the subject of Atmospheric Physics to undergraduate and postgraduate students, she continues her research work. Her research interests and activities include the validation of long-term global recordings of total ozone column and water vapor from satellite observations, their comparison with ground-based instruments and quality control and the statistical analysis of ground-based measurements of solar ultraviolet radiation, ozone and suspended particles.
As a member of the research team of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Dr. Garane took part in a number of European and National Research Projects, where, in addition to her scientific contribution, she gained extensive experience in the field of project management and collaboration with other research groups.
Today she is the Scientific Coordinator of two funded research projects. At the same time, to date he has actively participated in many international and Greek conferences, where he had 98 presentations and publications in conference proceedings. Finally, in terms of textbooks, she has participated in the publication of 20 papers in international journals, in 6 of which she is the main author (last update: May 2026).