Thomas Katagis graduated from the Department of Forestry and natural environment (AUTH) in 2004 and continued his postgraduate studies in the same department and received a MSc in 2008 and a PhD in 2017. He is an expert in the use of modern Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies in research and applications related to forest fire management, mapping and detection of changes of use/land cover and monitoring of natural ecosystems following a fire. He was a research associate at the Forest Management and Remote Sensing Laboratory at AUTH with participation in a large number of European and national research programs and projects. He also has teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in Satellite Remote Sensing, GSP and aerial photography courses. His activities include the writing of research proposals and the publication of scientific articles in Greek and international journals with a high impact factor, while he is also a reviewer of articles in international journals.
He was a fellow at the Research Institute of the European Space Agency (ESA / ESRIN), in Rome, in the field of Earth Observation (EOP-SA), as well as an IKY fellow for postdoctoral research. In 2021 he was elected to the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Management of Environment and Natural Resources (DuTh).
