Assoc. Prof. Katerina Kouli (PI) is a palynologist with a long experience in the study of pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs. Her research is focused on Quaternary vegetation of the Mediterranean and vegetation response to climatic changes. She is a member of the SCOPSCO/ICDP palynological group at Lake Ohrid and the first palynologist specialist member of the IODP 381 Science Party.
PhD candidate Aikaterini Kafetzidou is a geologist with an MSc in Paleontology-Geobiology form the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.Her postgraduate studies were focused on the macrophytic fossils (leaves) of the Early Miocene of Lesvos. Within QECCoRA project she is using pollen assemblages to understand the vegetation changes through successive Quaternary climatic cycles in the Corinth Gulf IODP record.
PhD candidate Eugenia Fatourou has a bachelor’s degree in Geology and a Master’s degree in Micropaleontology-Biostratigraphy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She works on QECCORA project, on the paleoenvironmental record of IODP 381 expedition, studying dinoflagellate cysts and other aquatic palynomorphs. Her research focuses on the depositional environment development and ecosystems response in the Gulf of Corinth during the Quaternary climatic cycles.
Dr. Elizabeth Stathopoulou (NKUA) has a geological and palaeontological background and is specialized in the study and structural characterization of palaeontological (biomaterials) and geological samples through analytical methods and techniques. Thus, she will be in charge of the laboratory work done during the project, including chemical processing, data analysis and synthesis.
Dr. Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos (University of Cologne) is a paleoecologist with a special interest in paleoclimate and biostratigraphy of the Mediterranean region. He is a Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Cologne (Germany) and his current research activities focus on the exceptional ICDP paleoarchive of Lake Ohrid in the Balkan Peninsula and the newly retrieved IODP Exp. 381 cores from the Gulf of Corinth.
Associate Prof. Fabienne Marret-Davies (University of Liverpool)
Palynologist, with more than 30 years of expertise in Quaternary dinoflagellate cysts, pollen and spores. Her research is focused on Quaternary records from the Mediterranean-Black Sea-Caspian corridor as well as from tropical environments and the Southern Ocean. She has dedicated her research to better understand the ecology of dinoflagellate cysts and their use for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, mapping their global distribution and using statistical approaches.
