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education

2005-2010: Ph.D., Imperial College London, UK
Thesis title: ‘Phylogeography of tenebrionid beetles in the Aegean archipelago’.
Supervisor: Prof. Alfried P. Vogler
 
2002-2003: M.Sc. ‘Advanced Methods in Taxonomy and Biodiversity’,
Imperial College and The Natural History Museum, London, UK
 
1996-2001: B.Sc. in Biology, University of Athens, Greece

​research positions

Sep 2017 - today: Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

Sep 2015-Jun 2017: Severo Ochoa Research Fellow
Department of Integrative Ecology
Estación Biologica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

Nov 2013-Aug 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Advisor: Prof. L. Lacey Knowles
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, USA
 
Jan 2011-Oct 2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, ‘Juan de la Cierva’ programme
Advisor: Dr. Jesús Gómez-Zurita
Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
 
Sep 2009-Jan 2011: Research assistant, DNA taxonomy
Supervisors: Dr. David Gower, Dr. Mark Wilkinson
Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
 
Mar 2004-Jun 2005: Research assistant
Supervisor: Prof. Alfried Vogler
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK