About
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the PRIN project: 'FALCOROBOT' at Tuscia University (UNITUS) and Pisa University in Italy. I have been leading the 2GSWARM project at Swansea University (U.K.) and was a 2023 PIT Fellow of FSBI at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany). I am Greek and my personal pronouns are she/her/hers.
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.
Research Projects
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Project: "FALCOROBOT: Collective and individual responses of avian flocks to robotic predators" (2024-2025)
Tuscia University, Pisa University, and University of Milan - with Dr. Claudio Carere
Funded by a PRIN Grant of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), awarded to CC
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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 J. King
Funded by ONR awarded to AJK
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Project: "Preventing bird strikes: Developing RoboFalcons to deter bird flocks" (2017-2022)
University of Groningen - with Prof. Dr. Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
Funded by NWO (an OTP grant), awarded to CKH
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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
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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
Funds, Scholarships & Awards
Latest presentations
CONFERENCES, WORSKSHOPS, SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Simulating Adaptive Behaviour (SAB)
California, USA (2024)
Guest Lecture at Animal Behavior Course
Swansea University, UK (2024)
Worskshop on Descriptive & Normative Models of Collective Behaviour
Leeds, UK (2022)
Workshop on Collective Motion
Corsica, France (2024)
Santa Fe Institute Symposium on
Collective Intelligence
Santa Fe, NM, USA (2023)
ANTS International Conference on
Swarm Intelligence
Malaga, Spain (2022)
ASAB Spring
Exeter University, UK (2024)
ASAB Sring
Bangor, UK (2023)
NVTV Annual Meeting
(Dutch Society for Theoretical Biology)
Schoorl, the Netherlands (2021)