Meet the Faculty

Our individualised and cutting-edge pedagogical approach has as its cornerstone the care, attitude, and experience, of our Faculty. They comprise an experienced group with strong academic credentials, diverse and international backgrounds, and in depth aviation and academic experience settings bound by their commitment to student success. The following are the Institute’s Faculty:

Alexandra Asche

Alexandra  has worked in the corporate finance industry for 10+ years. She holds an MBA from the University of Bedfordshire/UK and a Ship Finance Manager from the Frankfurt School of Finance. Being originally from Hamburg in Germany, she started to work at a ship financing bank. In 2013 she moved to the Corporate Banking team of private bank Berenberg in London and later to Frankfurt and Amsterdam to join Deka Bank and ING Bank. In 2018, she got the opportunity to join Global Jet Capital and change her main focus in asset class to business jets. As Sales Director for Europe she has been setting up Global Jet Capitals’ Swiss representative office and is sourcing and structuring leasing and financing solutions in Continental Europe for Global Jet Capitals’ portfolio.

Georgios Balogiannis

Georgios holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree in Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2020 was awarded a PhD degree in biomedical optics and biophysics from the National Technical University of Athens. Author and co-author of a several journal papers in a range of scientific fields, including biomedical engineering, biomedical optics, and general physics. Currently holding the position of Chief Theoretical Knowledge Instructor (CTKI) at Global Aviation S.A.

Nicholas Bertozzi

Nick holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University.  Over the past 42 years, he has taught a wide variety of engineering, math, and physics courses at Northeastern University, Daniel Webster College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he is currently a faculty member in the robotics engineering department.  Mr. Bertozzi had the privilege of serving as dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at DWC from 2009-2015 where, with the help of his colleagues, implemented ABET-accredited programs in aeronautical engineering and mechanical engineering. . 

Triant Flouris​

Triant holds degrees from the UofSC (Ph.D.), Baylor University (M.A.), and William Jewell College (B.A.). Dr. Flouris has extensive international experience in strategic planning and higher education administration in the U.S., Canada, and Greece. He is the author of nine books, and over two hundred refereed journal articles, book chapters, scholarly articles, and public reports primarily on aviation topics. He holds professional pilot and flight instructor certifications and has over 10,000 hours of total flight time. At NEAI he is President and professor of aviation.

Kallia Lempidaki

Kallia holds degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Ph.D.) and the University of Crete (M.A. and B.A.). Dr Lempidaki conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Hamburg (2016) and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology, 2018–2021). She worked as a research assistant at the University of Crete (2003, 2005), the National Hellenic Research Foundation (2005–2008), and the Institute for Advanced Study (School of Historical Studies/Princeton, 2017–2021). She has published a monograph and a series of articles on legal history. Her current research focuses on the juridical aspects of Ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions, social and cultural history, identity, and commemorative practices.

Raafat George Saadé 

Raafat has a Ph.D. from Concordia University and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada fellowship from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. After 21 years at Concordia University, he joined the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in Beijing, China, at the rank of Chair Full Professor. Since 1995, he has accumulated extensive consulting experience in four dot-com startup projects and in international projects funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and the International Civil Aviation Organization. Raafat is multidisciplinary and has published in top-ranked journals such as Sustainability, Journal of Air Transport Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Administrative Sciences, Internet of Things, Information and Management, Computers in Human Behavior, and Expert Systems with Applications. He is a founding member, vice president (research), and Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Aviation committee, of the International Association for Green Aviation (IAGA).

John Slater

John holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Chemistry from Alfred University in Alfred, New York, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Geochemical Systems from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire (NH). Dr. Slater was a NASA Earth System Science Fellow from 1999-2002 and has published several peer-reviewed scientific papers on atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric remote sensing, glacial ice and snow chemistry, and radiative climate forcing. Additionally, he is a member of the NH Envirothon Advisory Committee (environmental science academic competition for North American high school students) and a co-author of NH’s Environmental Literacy Plan. He is the owner of Energy Vision Homes, LLC, which specializes in building custom high-performance homes.

Lynnette Sorrentini

Lynette holds degrees from Liberty University (DBA), Wilmington University (MS), and the University of Puerto Rico, RUM (BS). Dr. Sorrentini has vast experience in talent acquisition and building pipeline programs, employee relations, leadership development, and diversity and inclusion. Lynnette is a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) through the Association for Talent Development. She holds the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) certification as a SHRM-CP. In addition, she has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate from the USF Office of Corporate Training and Professional Education. 

Thomas Teller

Mr. Teller is a 45-year veteran of the aviation industry with experience as a military officer, university faculty member, and researcher, having served in the past as a Chief Academic Officer of a higher education institution in the State of New Hampshire (Daniel Webster College). He has recently retired as a member of the research staff of the MIT Lincoln lab where he was involved in the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen project.