Dr. Aggeliki Barberopoulou is Chief Technology Officer at Prometheus Space Technologies, Research Scientist at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research, and President of the Tsunami Society International, recognized for her expertise in hazard mitigation, tsunami and earthquake risk assessment, and numerical modeling of geophysical phenomena. She holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Washington, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the same institution, an M.Sc. in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos from University College London, and a B.Sc. Honours in Mathematics and Computing from the University of East London. Dr. Barberopoulou has contributed extensively to the field through leadership and research roles, including co-founding Prometheus Space Technologies, serving on national and international tsunami hazard committees, and supervising tsunami damage and inundation studies. Her work encompasses processing submarine fiber optic data, numerical modeling of tsunamigenic earthquakes, hazard mapping, and damage assessments, resulting in a significant body of publications and presentations at professional and academic conferences. She serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Science of Tsunami Hazards, guiding scholarly discourse in the field, and has been invited as a speaker and panelist at numerous international forums. Dr. Barberopoulou’s contributions have been recognized through multiple awards and fellowships, including competitive research grants, outstanding poster and travel awards, and the prestigious SNFPHI award for innovative disaster response projects. Her leadership, research excellence, and dedication to advancing geophysical hazard understanding make her a highly distinguished candidate in her field.
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Featured Publications
1. Ganas, A., Elias, P., Kapetanidis, V., Valkaniotis, S., Briole, P., Kassaras, I., …. (2019). The July 20, 2017 M6.6 Kos earthquake: Seismic and geodetic evidence for an active north-dipping normal fault at the western end of the Gulf of Gökova (SE Aegean Sea). Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176(10), 4177–4211.
2. Dengler, L., Uslu, B., Barberopoulou, A., Borrero, J., & Synolakis, C. (2008). The vulnerability of Crescent City, California, to tsunamis generated by earthquakes in the Kuril Islands region of the northwestern Pacific. Seismological Research Letters, 79(5), 608–619.
3. Barberopoulou, A., Qamar, A., Pratt, T. L., Creager, K. C., & Steele, W. P. (2004). Local amplification of seismic waves from the Denali Earthquake and damaging seiches in Lake Union, Seattle, Washington. Geophysical Research Letters, 31(3).
4. Ganas, A., Briole, P., Bozionelos, G., Barberopoulou, A., Elias, P., Tsironi, V., …. (2020). The 25 October 2018 Mw=6.7 Zakynthos earthquake (Ionian Sea, Greece): A low-angle fault model based on GNSS data, relocated seismicity, small tsunami and implications for the … Journal of Geodynamics, 137, 101731.
5. Downes, G., Barberopoulou, A., Cochran, U., Clark, K., & Scheele, F. (2017). The New Zealand tsunami database: Historical and modern records. Seismological Research Letters, 88(2A), 342–353.