Ilektra Karasante

Ilektra Karasante

Data Scientist

OrionLab

Since 2022, Ilektra has been working as a Research Associate at the Orion Lab. Currently, her focus is on the coordination and management of EU-funded projects related to artificial intelligence, environmental monitoring, and natural hazards, with an emphasis on wildfires and their atmospheric and climate impacts. In the past, her work was around environmental dataset development, geospatial data analysis, and supporting wildfire risk assessment and forecasting workflows using Python-based tools, and tectonic displacements through GNSS.

EU-Projects involvement

SeasFire – Dataset development, project management, and causal modelling DeepCube – Evaluation of wildfire danger forecasting services and stakeholder collaboration with the Hellenic Fire Service MeDiTwin – Pr. Management and coordination SIMMER – Pr. Management and Coordination, Stakeholder engagement and resilience planning Greek National Satellite Space Project - Safety and Security – Development of wildfire risk service

Interests
  • wildfires
  • Science Communication
  • Earth Sciences
  • Data-cubes
Education
  • M.Sc in Space Science Technologies and Applications, 2020

    National Observatory of Athens, University of Peloponnese

  • B.Sc in Geology and Geoenvironment, 2018

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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