Angelos Vourlidas

Dr. Angelos Vourlidas’ research interests extend over almost all aspects of solar activity, from the chromosphere to the corona to the inner heliosphere. He is particularly interested in explosive activity, such as coronal mass ejections and flares, and the origins of the solar wind. He has extensive experience in space hardware design, development, calibration, and project management with emphasis on coronagraphs, and heliospheric, UV, and EUV imagers. Dr. Vourlidas is an expert on ground-based radio interferometry and solar radio telescope calibration. His research is widely cited (top 1% of scientists worldwide; Ioannidis et al., 2019). Dr. Vourlidas is co-investigator and project scientist on the following coronagraphic and heliospheric imaging payloads: LASCO (onboard ESA/NASA SOHO), SECCHI (onboard NASA STEREO), SoloHI (onboard ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter), and WISPR (onboard NASA PSP). He is co-investigator of the ESA ASPIICS coronagraph onboard the upcoming Proba-3 mission.

He was the principal investigator of the Very high Angular resolution ULtraviolet Telescope (VAULT 2.0) sounding rocket experiment and the project scientist of the VAULT and VERIS sounding rocket payloads with a combined experience of five rocket launch campaigns.