Starmus La Palma
Stavros Meletlidis is a member of the Volcanic Monitoring Unit of the National Geographic Institute(IGN) and works at the Geophysical Center of the IGN in Tenerife.
He holds a degree in Geological Sciences from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona (Spain).
He served as the head of the Volcanological Observatory of Santorini for three years before joining the IGN’s Volcanic Surveillance Group in 2007. His main area of expertise is the study of recent volcanism in the Canary Islands—covering physical volcanology, petrology, and dating techniques—with a focus on volcanic risk mitigation.
He has contributed to the deployment and maintenance of IGN's multi-parameter monitoring networks in the Canary Islands, as well as the analysis, interpretation, and publication of data obtained through these systems. He has been involved in the monitoring of the El Hierro eruption (2011–2012) and the more recent La Palma eruption (2021), during which he served as a member of the Scientific Committee under the PEVOLCA emergency response framework.
In recognition of his close collaboration with the Civil Protection Unit of the Government Delegation during seismic-volcanic crises and eruptions over the past two decades, he has been awarded the Civil Protection Merit Medal.
