Christoforos Pappas |
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Assistant Professor |
Civil Engineer by training, Dr. Christoforos Pappas after graduating from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece (NTUA, 2010), moved to Switzerland to obtain his PhD degree from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at the ETH Zurich (2014). After more than ten years of research experience abroad, including academic appointments in Switzerland (Zurich) and Canada (Montreal), Dr. Pappas has joined the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Patras as Assistant Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Geodesy and Geodetic Applications. His research focuses on monitoring and modeling of spatiotemporal geophysical and biophysical phenomena, while his methodological toolbox includes detailed process-based numerical modeling, spatiotemporal data analyses (e.g., observation networks, satellite products), field surveys, instrumentation, and monitoring. The research activity of Dr. Pappas addresses pressing questions on natural and urban landscapes, with cross-disciplinary engineering- and science-based solutions that require accurate spatiotemporal characterization of the underlying phenomena.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=005614oAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christoforos-Pappas
- Cabon, A., Kannenberg, S.A., Arain, A., Babst, F., Baldocchi, D., Belmecheri, S., Delpierre, N., Guerrieri, R., Maxwell, J.T., McKenzie, S., Meinzer, F.C., Moore, D.J.P., Pappas, C., Rocha, A.V., Szejner, P., Ueyama, M., Ulrich, D., Vincke, C., Voelker, S.L., Wei, J., Woodruff, D., & Anderegg, W.R.L. (2022). Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth. Science, 376(6594), 758–761. https://doi.org/10.1126/SCIENCE.ABM4875
- Hurley, A. G., Peters, R.L., Pappas, C., Steger, D.N., & Heinrich, I. (2022). Addressing the need for interactive, efficient, and reproducible data processing in ecology with the datacleanr R package. PLOS ONE, 17(5), e0268426. https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0268426
- Kannenberg, S.A., Cabon, A., Babst, F., Belmecheri, S., Delpierre, N., Guerrieri, R., Maxwell, J.T., Meinzer, F.C., Moore, D.J.P., Pappas, C., Ueyama, M., Ulrich, D., Voelker, S.L., Woodruff, D., & Anderegg, W.R.L. (2022). Drought-induced decoupling between carbon uptake and tree growth impacts forest carbon turnover time. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 322 (108996). https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2022.108996</div>
- Fatichi, S., Peleg, N., Mastrotheodoros, T., Pappas, C., & Manoli, G. (2021). An ecohydrological journey of 4500 years reveals a stable but threatened precipitation-groundwater recharge relation around Jerusalem. Science Advances, 7(37), 6303. https://doi.org/10.1126/SCIADV.ABE6303
- Holtzman, N.M., Anderegg, L.D., Kraatz, S., Mavrovic, A., Sonnentag, O., Pappas, C., Cosh, M.H., Langlois, A., Lakhankar, T., Tesser, D., Steiner, N., Colliander, A., Roy, A., & Konings, A.G (2021). L-band vegetation optical depth as an indicator of plant water potential in a temperate deciduous forest stand. Biogeosciences, 18, 739–753. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-739-2021
- Markonis, Y., Pappas, C., Hanel, M., & Papalexiou, S.M. (2021). A cross-scale framework for integrating multi-source data in Earth system sciences. Environmental Modelling and Software, 139. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENVSOFT.2021.104997
- Peters, R.L., Pappas, C., Hurley, A.G., Poyatos, R., Flo, V., Zweifel, R., Goossens, W., & Steppe, K. (2021). Assimilate, process and analyse thermal dissipation sap flow data using the TREX r package. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(2), 342–350. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13524
- Pierrat, Z., Nehemy, M.F., Roy, A., Magney, T., Parazoo, N.C., Laroque, C., Pappas, C., Sonnentag, O., Grossmann, K., Bowling, D.R., Seibt, U., Ramirez, A., Johnson, B., Helgason, W., Barr, A., & Stutz, J. (2021). Tower-based remote sensing reveals mechanisms behind a two-phased spring transition in a mixed-species boreal forest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006191
- Fatichi, S., Peleg, N., Mastrotheodoros, T., Pappas, C., & Manoli, G. (2021). An ecohydrological journey of 4500 years reveals a stable but threatened precipitation-groundwater recharge relation around Jerusalem. Science Advances, 7 (37), 6303. https://doi.org/10.1126/SCIADV.ABE6303
- Mastrotheodoros, T., Pappas, C., Molnar, P., Burlando, P., Manoli, G., Parajka, J., Rigon, R., Szeles, B., Bottazzi, M., Hadjidoukas, P., & Fatichi, S. (2020). More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers. Nature Climate Change, 10(2), 155–161. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0676-5
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