Prof. Helen Mavromichalaki received a degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1970 and 1977, respectively. She joined the Nuclear and Particle Physics Section of the Physics Department of Athens University, Athens, Greece, where she has served as Lecturer, Assistant Professor, and now as an Associate Professor. Since 1982, she has been the head of the Cosmic Ray Group and since 2000, she has been the Principal Investigator of the Athens Neutron Monitor station, providing high-resolution cosmic ray data to the Internet in real time. She is responsible for two projects supported by the European Commission: the development of the worldwide Neutron Monitor Network in real time in the Athens station and the forecasting of great proton events
dangerous to satellite technology using this network. Her research interests include cosmic ray, solar, space, and magnetospheric physics useful to space weather applications.
Dr. Anatoly V. Belov received a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in 1980. He left the Physical Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1969. He joined
IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, where he served as a Junior Scientist from 1969 to 1981, Senior Scientist from 1981 to 1994, and head of the Cosmic Ray Variation Laboratory from 1994 to the present. His scientific interests include the study of galactic and solar cosmic ray variations, ground
level enhancements (GLEs), Forbush effects, cosmic ray anisotropy, and solar wind interaction with cosmic rays. His focus is on improving the theory of cosmic ray anisotropy, and on developing the methods of calculation of the cosmic ray anisotropy and gradients in space by ground-level and space
craft observations. The methods of “ring stations” and pitch angle distribution of the cosmic rays in space are offered and intensively applied to the study of the interaction of cosmic rays with solar wind disturbances. At present, he is also focused on the problem of space weather, in particular, satellite anomalies and their relation to different space environmental parameters.
Dr. Victor Yanke received a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He joined IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, where he served as a Junior Scientist from 1973 to 1986, Senior Scientist from 1986 to 1994, and as Chief of the Cosmic Ray Department of IZMIRAN from 1994 to the present. His scientific interests are in the field of cosmic ray isotropic and anisotropic variations during disturbed solar activity periods, the study of magnetospheric current systems, and some methodological questions as well, in particular, a theory of the meteorological effects in cosmic rays, and the application of the global spectrographic method to study cosmic ray variations. The cosmic ray stations of the new generation, and the modern system of collecting and processing information with the wide use of contemporary computer and net technologies, were developed in his department. The first time these achievements were used to arrange a real-time presentation of data of neutron monitoring started
in 1997. The main area of his interest now is to develop and realize the way to use data from many neutron monitors in real time to estimate the situation with space weather and to prognose the alert moments for dangerous solar proton events or the onset of sudden storm commencements.
