Elina Aidona

Assistant Professor (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Geology, Department of Geophysics)

BIO

Dr. Elina Aidona got her Bachelor Degree in Geology in 1995. The same year she entered, after successful exams, the master degree program. During her Diploma Thesis (MSc) she was studying the magnetic properties of minerals and its applications in Archaeology and Geology. The time space from January 1998 to March 2002 she was working on her Doctorate thesis dealing with the palaeomagnetic investigation of sediments cores from deep boreholes from N. Greece. In 2003 she spent one year in the University of Leoben (Austria) as a post-doc, working on the archaeomagnetic investigation of Bronze Age archaeological sites in Austria. From March 2002 she is working in the AUTh as a research assistant until 2012, 2012-2018 as a lecturer and currently as an Assistant Professor in the Geophysical Department, School of Geology in AUTh. Her research is mainly focused on palaeomagnetic and archaeomagnetic studies as well as on the magnetic properties of sediments and soils from different environments. She is the author of more than 50 journal and proceedings publications, while she has participated in more than 20 research projects (1 European). She is collaborating with foreign palaeomagnetic laboratories in Europe (France, Austria, Czech Republic, etc).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Genevey A., Kondopoulou D., Petridis P., Aidona E., Muller A., Blonde F. and Gros, J.S. (2018). New constraints on geomagnetic field intensity variations in the Balkans during the Early Byzantine period from ceramics unearthed at Thasos and Delphi, Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 21, 952-961.
  2. Aidona E., Polymeris G., Camps P., Kondopoulou D., Ioannidis N. and Raptis, K. (2018). Archaeomagnetic versus Luminescence Methods: The case of an Early Byzantine Ceramic Workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece. Arch. Anthropol. Sci.,10, 725-741.
  3. Aidona E., Grison H., Petrovsky E., Kazakis Papadopoulou L. and Voudouris K. (2016). Magnetic characteristics and trace elements concentration in soils from Anthemountas river basin (north Greece): discrimination of different sources of magnetic enhancement. Environmental Earth Sciences, 75, 1375.
  4. E., Sarris A., Kondopoulou D. and Sanakis Y. (2001). Application of Magnetic and Spectrometry Methods in the Detection of Human Activity in Soils: A Case Study in the Archaeological Site of Kitros (N. Greece). Archaelogocial Prospection, 8, 187-198.