Dr Ioannis A. Daglis is the Director of NOA/ISARS since 2006. He has 20 years experience in space plasma physics, with more than 70 scientific papers in refereed journals and 3 books on Space Weather, 1400+ citations and a Thomson h-index of 20. His book "Space Storms and Space Weather Hazards" (2001) is "recommended teaching material" of the United Nations Space Science & Technology Curriculum. He has been a member of the Solar System Working Group - the advisory committee of ESA on Solar System Science (2006-2010); Greek Delegate to the FP7-Space Programme (2006-2009); member of the Science Definition Panel for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Mission of NASA; Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA); and the Editor for Magnetosphere and Space Plasma Physics of Annales Geophysicae. He has been a Co-Investigator on three NASA missions (SAC-B, Polar, THEMIS) and one ESA mission (BepiColombo). He received the NASA Group Achievement Award (1998) for his contribution to the Global Geospace Science program and the ESA Individual Achievement Award for his contribution to the Cluster mission (2010).

Dr Anastasios Anastasiadis is Research Director at NOA/ISARS. His scientific interests include high-energy phenomena in space plasma physics, transport and diffusion processes in dynamical systems, particle acceleration, transport and radiation in stochastic magnetic fields. He has published more than 40 refereed scientific papers in international journals and special volumes/books. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the European Astronomical Society (EAS), of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (HelAS), of the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA) and of the Joint Organization for Solar Observations (JOSO). He is elected board member of HelAS. He has served as a Guest Editor for the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics and the journal Entropy. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals: International Review of Physics and Entropy.

Dr Georgios Balasis is a Researcher at NOA/ISARS. His research interests lie mainly in Sun-Earth connection, dynamics of the magnetosphere and complex systems. He has published 30 refereed papers and has received 250+ citations. One of his papers was highlighted in 2007 as Science magazine Editors' Choice in the field of Astrophysics. He has been the convener of session "Open session on Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism" in the 2009 and 2010 European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Dr. Balasis is the National Delegate of Greece to the Programme Board of European Space Agency's Space Situation Awareness (SSA) Preparatory Programme.

Dr Ingmar Sandberg is a Research Associate at NOA/ISARS, working on the analysis and interpretation of Energetic Particle data collected by the ESA Standard Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM) units on-board Rosetta, Integral, Herschel, Planck and PROBA-1 satellites. His research interests lie mainly in phenomena associated with plasma instabilities in turbulence in space and in lab.

Dr Eleni Chatzichristou, formerly a Research Fellow of the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, now a Research Associate at NOA/ISARS and the Press Officer of the EuroPlaNeT Research Infrastructure.

Marina Georgiou, M.Sc., is a Research Associate at NOA/ISARS. She has been working on the use of various signal processing techniques for the analysis of ground-based and space-borne magnetometer data and in particular, on the identification and characterisation of ULF waves.

Mr Constantinos Papadimitriou was born and raised in Athens, Greece. At 2008 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Athens and he is currently working on his M.Sc. in Space Physics in the National Observatory of Athens. He has published in many leading academic journals and co-authored a paper on Discrete Scale Invariance in the Dst time series which stood out as American Geophysical Union Editor's Choice in the field of Space Weather for 2011.

Dr George Ropokis, was born in Athens, Greece, on February 22, 1982. He received the diploma degree in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in Mobile and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey, UK in 2005, and the Ph.D. Degree in wireless digital communication systems from the Computer Engineering and Informatics department, University of Patras, Greece in 2010. Since January 2006 he is affiliated with the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Greece. His research interests are focused on statistics with applications on modeling Physical Processes and Systems as well as on Wireless Communications Systems.