Former Members
Post-doctoral researchers
Carla Rego, PhD. (Member of the Azorean Biodiversity Group)
Project Title: Predicting extinctions on islands: a multi-scale assessment.
Francois Rigal, PhD. (Member of the Azorean Biodiversity Group)
Project Title: Biodiversity on oceanic islands: towards a unified theory.
Research Internships collaborators
Menelia Vasillopoulou-Kampitsi
Research project Title: The phylogeny of the Iuridae in the Eastern Mediterranean region using mtDNA and nuclear markers. Advisory committee: Dr. Aris Parmakelis, Dr Victor Fet and Dr Yagmur E.A.
Bernd Lenzner (DAAD fellowship)
Research project title: Morphological diversity of land snails across oceanic archipelagos. Advisory committee: Dr. Triantis K.A. and Dr. Aris Parmakelis.
Nikolett Sziszkosz (Balassi Institute fellowship)
Research project title: Phylogeny and phylogeography of eastern Mediterranean scorpion species.
MSc. students (in Ecology and Conservation of Biodiversity MSc program)
Ioannis Alexiou
Thesis Title: The phylogeograph of Armadillo officinalis (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in Cyprus (COMPLETED).
Undergraduate students
Domniki Dimitriadou
Thesis Title: The molecular phylogeny of Iuridae (Scorpiones) in the eastern Mediterranean. (COMPLETED).
Eudokia Gkigkiza
Thesis Title: The molecular phylogeny of Iuridae using the 16S rRNA mtDNA gene. (COMPLETED).
Stavroula Iliopoulou
Thesis Title: Morphological and molecular study of the genus Aspergillus. Co-supervised with Dr. Ioanna Pyrri. (COMPLETED).
Lydia Karampatsou
Thesis Title: The phylogeography of Euscorpius candiota (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) of Crete. (COMPLETED).
Maria Kourteli
Thesis Title: Morphological and molecular study of the genus Penicillium. Co-supervised with Dr. Ioanna Pyrri. (COMPLETED).
Alexandros Kourtidis
Thesis Title: Phylogeography of Cyrtocarenum using multiple molecular markers. (COMPLETED).
Emmanouil Meramveliotakis
Thesis Title: The molecular phylogeny of Pedinus Latreille, 1796 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) in GREECE. (COMPLETED).
Anastasios Mitrakos
Undergraduate Thesis Title: The phylogeography of Scolopendra cingulata (Chilopoda, Scolopendridae) in the Aegean region. (COMPLETED).
Anastasia Michou
Thesis Title: Morphological and molecular study of the fungus genus Mycogone of Greece using mtDNA and nuclear markers. Co-supervised with Dr. Gkonou-Zagkou. (COMPLETED).
Undergraduate Thesis Title: Phylogeography of endemic arthropods of the Azorean island group using mitochondrial DNA data. (COMPLETED).
Marina Moustaka
Undergraduate Thesis Title: Investigating the genetic divergence of immunity genes of the genus Anopheles, including the species of the Anopheles gambiae complex (major malaria vectors in sub-Saharan Africa), and its relation to the ecological requirements of the species. (COMPLETED).
Eirini Mpardani
Thesis Title: Morphological and molecular analyses of fungifile ascomycetes and zygomycetes from Greece. Co-supervised with Dr. Gkonou-Zagkou. (COMPLETED).
Christina Mpouranta
Thesis Title: Phylogeography of freshwater species of the Aegean islands. (COMPLETED).
Liana Nikou
Thesis Title: Assessing the levels of genetic diversity of critically endangered species of Greece. (COMPLETED).
Maria Pachi
Undergraduate Thesis Title: Investigating the phylogeography and population genetic structure of Scolopendra cretica (Chilopoda, Scolopendridae) in the island of Crete using the 16S mtDNA gene. (COMPLETED).
Irene Papanikolaou
Undergraduate Thesis Title: Molecular phylogeny of the species of the genus Codringtonia (endemic land snail genus of Greece). Investigating natural selection patterns acting on mtDNA and nuclear molecular markers throughout the species distributional climatic cline. (COMPLETED).
Kostas Papachristos
Thesis Title: The land snail genus Helix, systematics and ecology and the population genetic structure of Helix valentini. (COMPLETED).
Evgenia Pitsili
Thesis Title: The phylogeography of Asperula baenici in Greece. Co-supervised with Prof. Arianoutsou. (COMPLETED).
Panayiotis Poulikarakos
Undergraduate Thesis Title: Investigating the phylogeography and the population genetic structure of Scolopendra cretica (Chilopoda, Scolopendridae) in the island of Crete, using the 12S mtDNA gene. (COMPLETED).
Stavroula Poulikarakou
Undergraduate Thesis Title: The molecular phylogeny of the scorpion genus Euscorpius (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) in Greece.(COMPLETED).
Kiparissia Sitara
Thesis Title: Analyzing the shell differentiation of Mastus species from the island of Crete using conventional and geometric morphometrics. (COMPLETED).
Konstantina Spiliopoulou
Thesis Title: Macro-ecology and biogeography of terrestrial snails: global patterns of insular faunas. Co-supervised with Dr. Triantis. (COMPLETED).
Rania Theologi
Thesis Title: Phylogeography of Cyrtocarenum (Araneae) in Greece. (COMPLETED).
Ioanna Tsintzoura
Thesis Title: The population genetic structure of an endemic spider of the Azorean island group. (COMPLETED).
Angelica Vounta
Thesis Title: A molecular assessment of the freshwater coleopteran diversity of the Aegean islands. (COMPLETED).
Katerina Zafeiriou
Thesis Title: Ecology and population structure of three species of the Greek endemic genus Codringtonia (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). (COMPLETED).
Charalampos Zafeiropoulos
Thesis Title: A morphometric approach of the species of the fresh water snail genus Pseudamnicola of Greece. (COMPLETED).