Christos Fountoukis received his PhD from the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, U.S. in 2007. He has been a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow from 2008-2012 and a Project Scientist from 2012-2015 with the University of Patras and the FORTH research institute in Greece. Over the last 20 years he has participated in 15 large-scale integrated projects of the EU and the USA. He has more than 50 journal publications, h-index=30 and 4,304 citations (as of August 2022).

At QEERI, Christos is a Technical Team Leader for the atmospheric research modeling team within the Air Quality & Climate Change research program under the Environment and Sustainability Center. His research focuses on the application of air quality and climate models in the greater region of the Middle East with a special focus on the State of Qatar. He is also interested in atmospheric dust and solar energy forecasting and their effects on PV systems and solar power generation potential. Working closely with the measurement groups, the goal is to better understand the local and regional atmospheric conditions in order to identify efficient mitigation strategies toward a sustainable environment.