Peristera Paschou graduated from the Physics Department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and she obtained her M.Sc. degree in 2018, in the field of “Environmental Physics”, also from the Physics Department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since February 2019, she has been working as a research fellow in the ReACT team of the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing at the National Observatory of Athens. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the main focus on the properties of desert dust using active satellite and ground-based remote sensing.

Atmospheric physics, Monitoring of atmospheric aerosols using active and passive remote sensing techniques.