Curriculum Vitae

since 9/2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Principal Investigator) in ICDP DFG Project "Insights into the origin of a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot based on palynological and biomarker analyses of Lake Ohrid sediments from Early Pleistocene (> 1.2 Ma)"

7/2013–8/2016
Coordinator of the doctoral student Graduate School IRTG (Project Z3) of the CRC 806, University of Cologne

2009–2013
Doctoral Researcher in Project B2 of the CRC 806, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne
Dissertation title: "Late Quaternary ecosystem and climate interactions in SW Balkans inferred from Lake Prespa sediments"

2008 
Blue-book Trainee at the Cabinet of Commissioner for Environment, European Commission, Brussels

2006–2007
Postgraduate Certificate in Environmental Management, CERE, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

2005–2007
M. Sc. in Environmental Sciences, IMES, University of Cologne

2004
Erasmus-Socrates Scholarship, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2000–2005 
Biology Diploma, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki