Maria Kanakidou is Associate Professor (Computations of Environmental Chemistry) at the Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory (ECPL http://ecpl.chemistry.uoc.gr), Division of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry (http://www.chemistry.uoc.gr), University of Crete.

She has background in Chemistry graduated from the Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece (1984). She has Master in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and Chemistry of Pollution (1985), PhD in Chemistry ('Sources of Nonmethane Hydrocarbons in the Atmosphere' - experimental studies - 1988) and Habilitation in Chemistry (Study of the impact of volatile organic compounds on tropospheric chemistry  global modeling studies - 1993) all three at the University of Paris 7 in France.

Her scientific expertise is in atmospheric chemistry, the impact of volatile organic compounds on HOx, O₃ and aerosols and modeling of atmospheric chemistry. Her particular interests are on gas/particle interactions, human-driven changes of the troposphere and interactions with climate.

She has been on grant by the Greek State Scholarship s Foundation, the European Union and the Max Planck Society. Before joining the University of Crete, she worked as research scientist in the modeling group of Prof. P. Crutzen at the Atmospheric Chemistry Division of Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany (1989-1991) and as senior research scientist at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (global tropospheric modeling  1991-1997). She has received the H. Julian Allen Award in 1998 (NASA).

She is Principal Investigator in several scientific projects supported by National and European Union funding, mainly related to chemistry and chemistry- climate interactions, origin and formation of secondary organic aerosol, and impact of oxygenated species on tropospheric chemistry. She coordinated the EU financed research project PHOENICS (Particles of Human Origin Extinguish Natural solar Irradiance in the Climate System, http://phoenics.chemistry.uoc.gr). She has served as co-convenor of the global integration modeling (GIM) activity under IGBP/IGAC, as member of the task force of IGBP/GAIM and in the European Commission Science Panel on Atmospheric Composition Change.

She is now serving as President of the Commission for Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (CACGP) member of the Steering Committee of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) and member of several advisory committees of European research projects. She is serving as reviewer for several peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Nature and Science, and of national and international scientific research proposals in Europe and the US. She is member of the Scientific Steering Committees of the remote sensing (AT2) and transport and transformation (T&TP) activities of the ACCENT European Network of Excellence on Atmospheric Composition Change (http://www.accent-network.org).

Dr. Kanakidou has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals (2 in Nature), more than 50 in peer-reviewed books and conference proceeding and about 110 presentations at international conferences.

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