Ioannis Papoutsis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

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Bio

Ioannis Papoutsis is an Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and an Adjunct Researcher at both the National Observatory of Athens and the Archimedes/Athena Research Center. He holds a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in Satellite Remote Sensing from NTUA, an MSc in Telecommunications from University College London, and an MBA from Alba Business School. He leads the OrionLab research group, which focuses on big satellite data analytics and machine learning for Earth Observation, with emphasis on natural disaster management and climate change impact monitoring. His research interests include foundational models in remote sensing, particularly self-supervised learning for multi-modal EO data, vision-language models for remote sensing image interpretation, and earth system deep learning for spatiotemporal forecasting. He coordinates four research projects — ThinkingEarth, MeDiTwin, DeepCube, and SeasFire — which investigate the application of AI in addressing environmental challenges. He has also served as Operations Manager of the Greek node of the European Space Agency (ESA) Hubs for Sentinel data distribution, and as Copernicus Emergency Management Services Manager for Risk and Recovery.