Eleni Katragkou is Professor and  Department Head of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. She is Physicist by training with MSc in Atmospheric Physics (AUTH) and PhD in Atmospheric Science (University of Heidelberg, Germany). Her research interests lie in the field of meteorology, climatology and atmospheric science. She has 61 publications in peer review journals (h-index=28, 2760 citations) and she participates or leads 40 research programs (European and national). She is a national L’Oreal-Unesco for Women in Science Laureate (2012) and member of the EYWA consortium awarded with the European Innovation Council prize for Early Warning on epidemics for her contribution in climate services (2021). She is contributing Author of the Regional Atlas Chapter of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report and Regional Focal Point for Europe and Western Asia of the World Climate Research Program (WCPR). She is cocoordinating the dynamical downscaling activities of the European Coordinated Regional Downscaling Activities (EURO-CORDEX) under the auspices of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). She teaches in the Under- and Postgraduate study programs at the School of Geology, AUTH.