Proestakis Emmanouil was born in Mytilini (Greece) in 1985. He studied Applied Mathematics and Physics at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and received his diploma degree in 03/2011. He received his M.Sc. at the field of "Environmental Physics" in 08/2013 at the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) of the University of Bremen-Germany, with his M.Sc. diploma theses in the field of "fluorescence retrieval based on satellite instrumentation". Since 04/2014 he is a PhD student in the University of Patras Department of Physics with collaboration to the National Observatory of Athens- NOA (since 05/2014) in the field of satellite remote sensing.

Environmental physics focused on satellite practices on active and passive space applications, cloud physics, physical and mathematical climatology.