Dimitra Kitsiou

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Dimitra Kitsiou

Associate Professor Dimitra Kitsiou earned her B.Sc. in Physics (1991) and her M.Sc. in Radioelectronics and Telecommunications (1993) from the University of Athens, Greece. Her PhD research (1993-1997) in the Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, Greece focused on GeoInformatics with applications in the marine environment. She worked for 6 months at the University of Wales, College of Cardiff (UK) in the Department of Maritime Studies and International Transport (1995) with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and for two years (1999-2000) as a post-doctoral researcher at CEFREM, University of Perpignan, France with a fellowship from the European Community, Marie Curie program ‘Training and Mobility of Researchers’, where she developed methodologies and a software for analyzing and visualizing data for the spatio-temporal study of particles in coastal zone. Since 2000 she works in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of the Aegean, Greece where she teaches Geoinformatics with applications in the coastal environment. Her research interests focus on the development of methodologies for the assessment of water quality in coastal zone, of mapping techniques and of decision-making tools for supporting coastal management and marine spatial planning. She has participated in many national and international research projects and has offered her services as an international expert in the European Union and other international organizations.