Connected Weather Group 
Adjunct Professor
Website
pavlos.kollias [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail)
Pavlos Kollias is currently a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University – SUNY and has a joint appointment with the Environment and Energy Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University, Canada and Global faculty at the University of Cologne Germany. Kollias was a prestigious Canada Research Chair and Professor at McGill University, Montreal Canada from 2007 to 2016.
Kollias has spent twenty-five years at the cutting edge of atmospheric experimentation. Kollias is internationally recognized as one of the leading thinkers in the use of radars for the study of atmospheric phenomena. He has authored and co-authored over 230 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and he is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship from Germany in 2013, the AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award in 2020 and AMS Fellow in 2026.
Kollias maintains a vibrant research group at McGill University that supports existing satellite missions such as the Earth Cloud Aerosols Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite mission (https://web.meteo.mcgill.ca/EarthCARE/), planned missions such as the Wind Velocity Radar Nephoscope (WIVERN) satellite missions (https://wivern.polito.it/) and future satellite missions that employ next generation radar systems by the European Space Agency.