Dr. Ioannis Iliopoulos

Professor
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Office hours

• Tuesday 10:00-11:00
• Wednesday 13:00-14:00
• Friday 10:00-11:00

Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: BSc (Patras), PhD (Patras)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5850-8144
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=XaOJ39gAAAAJ&hl=el

Research Interests

• Metamorphic Petrology
• Industrial minerals
• Sustainable Development
• Archaeometric Studies with Emphasis on Evaluation and Provenance of ancient ceramics and Stone artefacts

Teaching

• Geol_017 Computer applications in Earth Sciences
• Geol_035 Petrology of Igneous and Metamorphic rocks
• Geol_039 Geological Excursion V
• Geol_040 Industrial minerals
• Geol_050 Methods on Research and Analysis of Minerals and Rocks
• Geol_071 Metamorphism in the Hellenic region
• Geol_078 Protection of the Geological, Geographic and Human Heritage
• GEO_OME02 Earth Materials and Environmental Applications
• GEO_OME03 Advanced topics in Mineralogy/Petrology/Ore Geology
• GEO_OME04 Earth Materials and Sustainable Development
• GEO_OME05 Instumental Methods of the analysis of Earth Materials
• GEO_OME12 Archaeometric approaches for the study of ancient ceramic and stone artefacts
• OC_O02 Seafloor Mapping for Marine Heritage
   

Publications

• Xanthopoulou, V., Iliopoulos, I., Katsonopoulou, D., and Katsarou, S. (in press) Standardized patterns in the ceramic craft at early Bronze Age Helike, Achaea, Greece. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
• Xanthopoulou, V., Iliopoulos, I., and Avramidis, P. (2021) Assessment of clayey raw material suitability for ceramic production, in the Northern Peloponnese, Greece. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2021) 13:50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01297-1
• Xanthopoulou, V., Iliopoulos, I., and Liritzis, I. (2021) Mineralogical and Microstructure Analysis for Characterization and Provenance of Ceramic Artifacts from Late Helladic Kastrouli Settlement, Delphi (Central Greece). Geosciences 2021, 11, 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11010036
• Lara, C., and Iliopoulos, I., (2020). Ceramic technology, ethnic identification and multiethnic contacts: the archaeological example of the Cuyes river valley (south-eastern Andes of Ecuador). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 33: #102557.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102557
• Liritzis, I., Xanthopoulou, V., Palamara, E., Papageorgiou, I., Iliopoulos, I., Zacharias, N., Vafiadou, A., Germanos Karydas A., (2020). Characterization and provenance of ceramic artifacts and local clays from Late Mycenaean Kastrouli (Greece) by means of p-XRF screening and statistical analysis. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 46: 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.06.004
• Lampropoulou, P., Laskaris, N., Petrounias, P., Giannakopoulou, P.P., Rogkala, A., Kalampounias, A.G., Tsigrou, P., Katagas, C.G., and Iliopoulos, I., (2020). Petrogeochemical approaches to the characterization of obsidian derived from Nychia area (Milos Island, Greece) using combined methods. Microchemical Journal, 156, article no. 104843. DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2020.104843
• Xanthopoulou, V., Iliopoulos, I., and Liritzis, I., (2020). Characterisation techniques of clays for the archaeometric study of ancient ceramics: a review. Scientific Culture, 6(2): 73-86. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3724849
• Liritzis, I., Bednarik, R., Polymeris, G., Iliopoulos, I., Zacharias, N., Kumar G., Vafiadou, A. and Bratitsi, M., (2019). Daraki-Chattan rock art constrained osl chronology and multianalytical techniques: a first pilot investigation. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 37, 29-43.
• Bourli, N., Kokkaliari, M., Iliopoulos, I., Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D., Maravelis, A., & Zelilidis, A., (2019), Mineralogy of siliceous concretions, cretaceous of Ionian zone, western Greece: Implication for diagenesis and porosity, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 105, 45 – 63.
• Bratitsi M., Liritzis I., Vafiadou A., Xanthopoulou V., Palamara E., Iliopoulos I., Zacharias, N., (2018). Critical assessment of chromatic index in archaeological ceramics by Munsell and RGB: novel contribution to characterization and provenance studies. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 18(2), pp.175-212.
• Vitale, S., Marketou, T., McNamee, C., Moutafi, I., Vika, E., Mantello, C., Morrison, J.E., Iliopoulos, I., Passa, K.-S., Moulo, K., Blackwell, N.G. and Ballan, E., (2017). The Serraglio, Eleona, and Lancada Arcaeological Project (SELAP): report on the results of the 2011 to 2015 study seasons. In: Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle missioni Italiane in Oriente, vol. XCIV, serie III, 16, 2016, pp. 225-286.
• Liritzis, I., Zacharias, N., Al-Otaibi, F., Iliopoulos, I., Katagas, C., & Shaltout, M. (2016). Chronology of construction and occupational phases of nawamis tombs, sinai based on OSL dating. Geochronometria, 43(1), 121-130. doi:10.1515/geochr-2015-0041
• Tsikouras, Β., Passa, K.-S., Iliopoulos, I., & Katagas, C., (2016). Microstructural Control on Perlite Expansibility and Geochemical Balance with a Novel Application of Isocon Analysis: An Example from Milos Island Perlite (Greece). Minerals, 6(3), 80
• Katsonopoulou, D., Iliopoulos, I., Katsarou S., & Xanthopoulou, V., (2016). Craftsmanship of big storage pithoi in the Early Helladic settlement of Helike, Achaea. BAR S2780 Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry, Edited by E. Photos-Jones in collaboration with Y. Bassiakos, E. Filippaki, A. Hein, I. Karatasios, V. Kilikoglou and E. Kouloumpi.  British Archaeological Reports Ltd.
• Aravadinou, E., Xypolias, P., Chatzaras, V., Iliopoulos, I., & Gerogiannis, N. (2015). Ductile nappe stacking and refolding in the Cycladic Blueschist unit: insights from Sifnos Island (south Aegean Sea), International Journal of Earth Sciences, Special Issue on Eastern Mediterranean Tectonics.

Curriculum Vitae

• Short CV
• Extended CV

Dr. George Iliopoulos

Associate Professor
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Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: BSc (Athens, GR), PhD (Leicestershire, UK)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4875-128X
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=YcIRQkwAAAAJ&hl=el&oi=ao

Research Interests

• Palaeontology with special interest in Vertebrate Palaeontolog
• Fossil bone geochemistry and histology
• Stratigraphy-biostratigraphy
• Palaeoecology

Teaching

• Geol_ 

Publications

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Dr. Pavlos Avramidis

Associate Professor
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Office hours

• Monday 11:00-13:00
• Thursday: 11:00-12:00

Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: BSc Geology (Patras), PhD Sedimentology (Patras)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8204-970X
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?hl=el&user=1lh2-PIAAAAJ

Research Interests

• Sedimentology, Coastal and Environmental Sedimentology
• Palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimatic changes
• Sediments geochemistry
• Geochemical indices for palaeoenvironmtal and palaeoclimatic interpretations
• Submarine fans - turbidites facies and facies association
• Organic geochemistry

Teaching

• Geol_103 Planet Earth – Surface Processes
• Geol_203 Planet Earth – Internal Processes
• Geol_030 Geological Excursion – Field Trip III
• Geol_408 Sedimentology
• Geol_501 Environmental Sedimentology
• Geol_034 Geological mapping – Sedimentary Rocks
• Bio _ EA5 Soil Sciences
• Geol_CAD02 Sedimentary Environments and Geochemical Processes

Representative Research Projects

• Holocene Sedimentological Research of Zakynthos island. Funded by University of Amsterdam.
• Holocene Sedimentological Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Changes in Coastal Lagoon Systems of Western Greece (HolSedPro). Funded by Research Committee of the University of Patras ‘Karatheodoris Program’.
• Investigating the palaeo-environment of Northern Peloponnese valleys. Funded by the German Research Council (DFG)
• Zakynthos Archaeological Research Project. Funded by University of Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology
• Environmental Health Project: Understanding the role of the lung microbiome for human health and diseases. Funded by Helmholtz Zentrum München - Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analyses
• Environmental – Sedimentological and Geochemical study of bottom marine sediments. Funded by Private Sector - Enterprises.
• Environmental monitoring – Marine Sediments Geochemistry and biological analyses. Funded by Private Sector - Enterprises
• Study of aquatic sediments. Field works and laboratory analyses. Funded by Stockholm Universitet.
• Environmental history of the Byzantine and Ottoman Peloponnese. Funded by Max Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History.

Representative Publications (last 5 years)

• Avramidis, P., Iliopoulos, G., Kontopoulos, N., Panagiotaras, D., Barouchas, P., Nikolaou, K., Papadopoulou, P. 2015. Depositional environments, sediment characteristics, palaeoecological analysis and environmental assessment of an internationally protected shallow Mediterranean lagoon, Gialova Lagoon - Navarino Bay, Greece. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 105 (3), pp. 189-206.
• Avramidis, P., Bekiari, V., Christodoulou, D., Papatheodorou, G. 2015. Sedimentology and water column stratification in a permanent anoxic Mediterranean lagoon environment, Aetoliko Lagoon, western Greece. Environmental Earth Sciences, 73 (9), 5687-5701.
• Weiberg, E., Unkel, I., Kouli, K., Holmgren, K., Avramidis, P., Bonnier, A., Dibble, F., Finné, M., Izdebski, A., Katrantsiotis, C., Stocker, S.R., Andwinge, M., Baika, K., Boyd, M., Heymann, C. 2016. The socio-environmental history of the Peloponnese during the Holocene: Towards an integrated understanding of the past. Quaternary Science Reviews, 136, 40-65.
• Avramidis, P., Nikolaou, K., Poulos, K., Bekiari, V., Vantarakis, A. 2017. Environmental characterization of a Mediterranean protected shallow brackish coastal aquatic system, Klisova Lagoon, Western Greece: a case study. Journal of Coastal Conservation 21,115-125,. doi: 10.1007/s11852-016-0476-2.
• Avramidis, P., Kalaitzidis, S., Iliopoulos, G., Papadopoulou, P., Nikolaou, K., Papazisimou, S., Christanis, K., van Wijngaarden, G.J., 2017. The so called 'Herodotus Springs' at 'Keri Lake' in Zakynthos Island western Greece: A palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological approach. Quaternary International 439, 37-51.
• Katsaros, D., Panagiotaras, D., Kontopoulos, N., Avramidis, P.Sediments characteristics and heavy metals distribution of a very shallow protected coastal lagoon, Prokopos Lagoon Mediterranean Sea western Greece. Fresenius Enviromental Bulletin 26 (10) 6093-6103.
• Avramidis, P., Iliopoulos, G., Nikolaou, K., Kontopoulos, N., Koutsodendris, A., van Wijngaarden, G.J., 2017. Holocene sedimentology and coastal geomorphology of Zakynthos Island, Ionian Sea: A history of a divided Mediterranean island. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 487, 340-354.
• Michas, A. Vestergaard, G., Trautwein, K., Avramidis, P., Hatzinikolaou, D.G., Vorgias, C.E., Wilkes, H., Rabus, R., Schloter M., and Schöler A., 2017. More than 2500 years of oil exposure shape sediment microbiomes with the potential for syntrophic degradation of hydrocarbons linked to methanogenesis. Microbione 5:118, DOI 10.1186/s40168-017-0337-8.
• Zizicki, Z.S., Tamez, V., Galanopoulou, A.P., Avramidis, P., Foufopoulos, J.2017. Long-term effects of feral goats (Capra hircus) on Mediterranean island communities: results from whole island manipulations. Biological Invasions, pp. 1-16.
• Emmanouilidis, A., Katrantsiotis, C., Norström, E., Risberg, J., Kylander, M., Sheik, T.A., Iliopoulos, G., Avramidis, P. Middle to late Holocene palaeoenvironmental study of Gialova Lagoon, SW Peloponnese, Greece Quaternary International DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.005.
• Papoulis, D., Tzortzakaki, O., Avramidis, P., Mentis, P., Lampropoulou, P., Iliopoulos, G., 2018. Mineralogical and textural characteristics of nest building geomaterials used by three sympatric mud-nesting hirundine species, Scientific Reports, 8 (1), art. no. 11050.
• Katrantsiotis, C., Kylander, M.E., Smittenberg, R., Yamoah, K.K.A., Hättestrand, M., Avramidis, P., Strandberg, N.A., Norström, E., 2018. Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate reconstruction over the last 3600 years based on sedimentary n-alkanes, their carbon and hydrogen isotope composition and XRF data from the Gialova Lagoon, SW Greece Quaternary Science Reviews, 194, pp. 77-93.
• Katrantsiotis C., Norström E., Smittenberg R.H., Finnee M., Weiberge E., Hättestranda M., Avramidis P., Wastegårda S., 2019. Climate changes in the Eastern Mediterranean over the last 5000 years and their links to the high-latitude atmospheric patterns and Asian monsoons. Global and Planetary Change 175 36–51.
• Bassukas, D., Emmanouilidis, A., Panagiotaras, D., Avramidis, P. 2019. Sedimentological and geochemical evaluation of vouliagmeni lake sediments, Perachora, Peninsula, Corinth, Greece. International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Management, SGEM, 19 (1.1), pp. 505-512.
• Emmanouilidis, A., Messaris, G., Ntzanis, E., Zampakis, P., Avramidis, P. 2019. Microstructural and facies identification through x-ray computed tomography (Ct) on anually laminated sediments. International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Management, SGEM, 19 (1.1), pp. 319-326.
• Vött, A., Bruins, H.J., Gawehn, M., Goodman-Tchernov, B.N., De Martini, P.M., Kelletat, D., Mastronuzzi, G., Reicherter, K., Röbke, B.R., Scheffers, A., Willershäuser, T., Avramidis, P., Bellanova, P., Costa, P.J.M., Finkler, C., Hadler, H., Koster, B., Lario, J., Reinhardt, E., Mathes-Schmidt, M., Ntageretzis, K., Pantosti, D., Papanikolaou, I., Sansò, P., Scicchitano, G., Smedile, A., Szczuciński, W. 2019. Publicity waves based on manipulated geoscientific data suggesting climatic trigger for majority of tsunami findings in the mediterranean – response to ‘tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the mediterranean’ by marriner et al. (2017). Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, 62, pp. 7-45.
• Avramidis, P., Barouchas, P., Dünwald, T., Unkel, I., Panagiotaras, D.2019. The Influence of Olive Orchards Copper-Based Fungicide Use, in Soils and Sediments—The Case of Aetoliko (Etoliko) Lagoon Western Greece. Geosciences (Switzerland), 9 (6), art. no. 267
• Katrantsiotis, C., Norström, E., Smittenberg, R.H., Finne, M., Weiberg, E., Hättestrand, M., Avramidis, P., Wastegård, S. 2019. Climate changes in the Eastern Mediterranean over the last 5000 years and their links to the high-latitude atmospheric patterns and Asian monsoons. Global and Planetary Change, 175, pp. 36-51.
• Emmanouilidis, A., Unkel, I., Triantaphyllou, M., Avramidis, P., 2020. Late-Holocene coastal depositional environments and climate changes in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. The Holocene, 30 (1), 77-89.
• Emmanouilidis, A., Messaris, G., Ntzanis, E., Zampakis, P., Prevedouros, I., Bassukas D., Avramidis, P., 2020. CT scanning, X-ray fluorescence: Non-destructive techniques for the identification of sedimentary facies and structures. Revue de Micropaléontologie (in press).

Curriculum Vitae

• Short CV
• Extended CV

Dr. Kimon Christanis

Professor
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Office hours

• Monday 10:00-11:00
• Wednesday 10:00-11:00
• Friday 12:00-13:00

Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: Diploma (NTU Athens), PhD (Braunschweig, Germany)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4625-2783
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?hl=el&user=HPLxpB8AAAAJ

Research Interests

• Peat/Coal Geology
• Organic Petrology
• Environmental impacts from peat/coal utilization
• Non-energy applications of peat and coal

Teaching

• GEO_045  Energy Sources
• GEO_061Ε Coal Geology
• GEO_075  Geothermal Energy
• GEO_611  Seminar on scientific and CV writing
• GE_EM02  Environmental impacts from exploitation of earth materials – Rehabilitation of landscape and the environment

Publications

• Ogala, J.E., Kalaitzidis, S., Rizos, A.M., Christanis, K., Omo-irabor, O.O., Adaikpoh, E.O., Ejeh, O.I., Papaefthymiou, H. (in press). Petrographic and mineralogical study of extended outcrops of lignite layers in Agbor area, southern Nigeria. J. Afr. Earth Sci.
• Kern, O.A., Koutsodendris, A., Machtle, B., Christanis, K., Scholz, C., Kotthoff, U., Pross, J., Schukraft, G. (in press). XRF core scanning yields reliable semiquantitative data on the elemental composition of highly organic-rich sediments: Evidence from the Furamoos peat bog (Southern Germany). Sci. Tot. Environ.
• Oskay, R.G., Christanis, K., Salman, M. (2019). Coal features and depositional environment of the Northern Karapınar–Ayrancı coal deposit (Konya, Central Turkey). Turkish J. Earth Sci. 28, 260-274.
• Ogala, J.E., Kalaitzidis, S., Christanis, K., Omo-Irabor, O.O., Akinmosin, A., Yusuf, C.U., Constantinopoulos, M., Papaefthymiou, H., Pasadakis, N. (2019). Geochemical and organic petrological study of bituminous sediments from Dahomey Basin, SW Nigeria. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 99, 577–595.
• Christanis, K. (2017). Greece. In: Mires and peatlands of Europe. Status, distribution and conservation (Joosten, H., Tanneberger, F. and Moen, A., eds), 425-43, Schweizerbart Sci. Publ. [ISBN 978-3-510-65383-6].Pickel, W., Kus, J., Flores, D., Kalaitzidis, S., Christanis, K., Cardott, B.J., Misz-Kennan, M., Rodrigues, S., Hentschel, A., Hamor-Vido, M., Crosdale, P., Wagner, N. (2017). Classification of liptinite – ICCP System 1994. Int. J. Coal Geol. 169, 40-61.
• Oskay, R.G., Christanis, K., Inaner, H., Salman, M., Taka, M. (2016). Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the eastern part of the Karapınar-Ayrancı coal deposit (Central Turkey). Int. J. Coal Geol. 163, 100-111.
• Alnawafleh, H., Tarawneh, K., Siavalas, G., Christanis, K., Iordanidis, A. (2016). Geochemistry and Organic Petrography of Jordanian Sultani Oil Shale. Open J. Geol. 6, 1209-1220.
• Christanis, K. (2016). The Philippi Peatland (Greece). In: C.M. Finlayson et al. (eds.), The Wetland Book, 6 pp., Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

Curriculum Vitae

• Short CV
• Extended CV