I am a passionate marine researcher whose interests lie in the field of ecology and biodiversity of marine zoobenthos. Through participation in several surveys I have explored various marine ecosystems including seagrass meadows and cold water reefs.

Specifically, I started exploring the marine environment as an undergraduate student in Greece. My work there focused on the population dynamics and reproduction of echinoderms. Finishing my studies in Greece, I moved to the National Oceanography Centre (University of Southampton, UK) where I investigated the reproduction of a simultaneous hermaphorodite holothurian over the time series of 15 years.

Being amazed by the deep-sea world and its creatures I carried out my PhD (University of Aberdeen) in one of the most intriguing ecosystems of the world: cold-water coral reefs. There I worked on sponges and their epifauna in terms of biodiversity, trophic structure and feeding ecology highlighting important aspects about the structure and functioninng of these amazing ecosystems. After a post-doc in the University of Aberdeen working on the processing of different types of organic matter by deep-sea microbes, I moved to the University of Edinburgh. As a post-doctoral researcher in the ATLAS project I will mainly be involved in studies about the biodiversity, biogeography and ecology of deep-sea organisms in the North Atlantic Ocean.