About
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the 2G-SWARM project at Swansea University and an FSBI Postdoctoral Fellow (PITF) at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Main Education
PhD, Self-organization of Social Systems (2017-2022)
University of Groningen - Prof.Dr. C.K.Hemelrijk
Thesis: "Self-organized collective escape in bird flocks"
M.Sc., Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2016-2017)
Imperial College London
Thesis: "The Cultural Evolution of Evolution", with
Dr. J.Rosindell, Prof.Dr. A.M.Leroi, Prof.Dr. T.Barraclough.
B.Sc., Biology (2011-2016)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thesis: "Habitat suitability of the sea turtle Caretta caretta in the Mediterranean region", with Dr. A.Mazaris.
Affiliated Research
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Project: "Investigating the impact of behavioural individuality and group size on leadership dynamics using genetically identical fish (Poecilia formosa) and the RoboFish" (2024)
Humboldt University of Berlin and the Excellence Cluster: “Science of Intelligence" - with Prof. Dr. Jens Krause & Dr. David Bierbach
Funded by a Postdoctoral International Travelling Fellowship of FSBI
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Project: "2G-SWARM: Animals are not particles: a framework for second generation hetero-swarm robotics" (2022-2024)
Swansea University - with Dr. Andrew King
Funded by ONR
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Project: "BiasWatchEvol: Gender bias in Evolutionary Biology" (2017-2018)
Imperial College London - Independent research
Funded by an Equal Opportunities Initiative Fund of ESEB
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Project: "Determinants of sea turtle nesting patterns & spatial asymmetries at the global scale" (2016-2017)
Glasgow University - with Dr. S.Spatharis & Prof.Dr. J.Matthiopoulos
Funded by the Erasmus+ Placement Program
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Project: "Monitoring of reproduction activities of the loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in Zakynthos rookery" (2014)
National Marine Park of Zakynthos & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - with Dr. A.Mazaris
Funds, Scholarships & Awards
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Postdoctoral International Travelling Fellowships (PITF) (2023) FSBI, International Society for Fish Biology
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Symposium Grant (2022) Dutch Society for Theoretical Biology
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Best Oral Presentation Award (2021) Dutch Society for Theoretical Biology
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Equal Opportunities Initiative Fund (2017) European Society of Evolutionary Biology
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Erasmus+ Internship Grant (2016), European Commission
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Travel Grant (2015), International Sea Turtle Society
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Contributory scholarship (2014) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Admission scholarship (2011) Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation
Latest presentations
CONFERENCES, WORSKSHOPS, SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Guest Lecture at Animal Behavior Course
Swansea University, UK (2023)
Santa Fe Institute Symposium on
Collective Intelligence
Santa Fe, NM, USA (2023)
ASAB Sring
Bangor, UK (2023)
ANTS International Conference on
Swarm Intelligence
Malaga, Spain (2022)
Worskshop on Descriptive & Normative Models of Collective Behaviour
Leeds, UK (2022)
NVTV Annual Meeting
(Dutch Society for Theoretical Biology)
Schoorl, the Netherlands (2021)