Dr. Pavlos Avramidis is a Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Patras. His research focuses on the sedimentology of aquatic systems, particularly coastal ecosystems such as lagoons, lakes, deltas, and bays, as well as on geochemistry, palaeoenvironmental, and palaeoclimatic changes. He was a PhD and postdoctoral scholar of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), specializing in Energy Mineral Resources and Geology–Oceanography, respectively.

He has served as a geotechnical consultant for several major public works projects, contributing his expertise in environmental geology, geotechnical engineering, and hydrogeology. Dr. Avramidis has also participated as principal investigator and scientific coordinator in numerous national and international research projects at the University of Patras, focusing on protected areas within the NATURA 2000 network in Greece and on the environmental impacts of aquaculture on marine sediments.

He has been a visiting professor at the Johanna Mestorf Academy Chair and is a member of the Cluster of Excellence “ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies” at the University of Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), Germany. He is also an external research associate of the Max Planck Research Group “Palaeo-Science and History.”

Dr. Pavlos Avramidis served as Vice Rector for Research and Development at the University of Patras (2023–2024) and as Director of the Division of General Marine Geology and Geodynamics at the Department of Geology (2020–2022).

Faulwetter S., Ramfos A., Avramidis P. 2025. Large-scale analysis of environmental and ecological impacts of marine finfish aquaculture in the Aegean and Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean). Science of the Total Environment, 978, art. no. 179414.

Ramfos, A., Alysandratou, A., Katsani, O., Faulwetter, S., Nikolakopoulos, K.G., Avramidis, P. 2024. Ecological and environmental characteristics of a seagrass-dominated hypersaline coastal Mediterranean lagoon: a multidisciplinary approach. Aquatic Sciences, 86 (2), art. no. 48.

Emmanouilidis, A., Panagiotopoulos, K., Kouli, K., Avramidis, P. 2022. Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental and land-use changes in Western Greece based on a sediment record from Klisova lagoon. Holocene, 32 (6), pp. 485-500. 

Emmanouilidis, A., Katrantsiotis, C., Dotsika, E., Kokkalas, S., Unkel, I., Avramidis, P., 2022. Holocene paleoclimate variability in the eastern Mediterranean, inferred from the multi-proxy record of Lake Vouliagmeni, Greece. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 595, art. no. 110964

Avramidis, P., Bekiari, V. 2021. Application of a catalytic oxidation method for the simultaneous determination of total organic carbon and total nitrogen in marine sediments and soils. PLoS ONE, 16 (6 June), art. no. e0252308.

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.

Avramidis, P., Geraga, M., Lazarova, M., Kontopoulos, N. 2013. Holocene record of environmental changes and palaeoclimatic implications in Alykes Lagoon, Zakynthos Island, western Greece, Mediterranean Sea. Quaternary International, 293, 184-195

Avramidis P., Samiotis A., Kalimani E., Papoulis D., Lampropoulou, P., Bekiari V., 2012. Sediment characteristics and water physicochemical parameters of the Lysimachia lake, Western Greece. Environmental Earth Sciences 70, 383-392.

Avramidis P. & Zelilidis A. 2007 Potential source rocks, Organic geochemistry and thermal maturation in the southern depocenter (Kipourio – Grevena) of the Mesohellenic Basin, Central Greece. Intern. Jour. Coal Geology, 71 (4), 554-567.

Avramidis P., Zelilidis A, Vakalas I. & Kontopoulos N. (2002): Interaction between tectonic activity and eustatic sea-level changes on basin evolution and hydrocarbon potential: the Pindos foreland and Mesohellenic piggy-back basins, central Greece. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 25(1), 53-82.

Avramidis, P., Zelilidis, A. & Kontopoulos, N. 2000: Thrust Dissection Control of Deep-Water Clastic Dispersal Patterns in the Klematia – Paramythia Foreland Basin, Western Greece. Geological Magazine, 137 (6) 667-685.

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Sedimentology, Coastal and Environmental Sedimentology

Paleoenvironments and Paleoclimatic changes

Sediment Geochemistry – Organic Geochemistry

Geo-sensors and Applications

Geochemical indexes for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic interpretations

Turbidite sedimentary facies

EUROPEAN UNION – HORIZON Grant Agreement No. 101178775Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Autonomous In-Situ Exploration of Critical Raw Materials In Deep Land Deposits. Funded by the 2024-2027.

GREEN FUND – Ministry of the Environment and Energy –Impact of Climate Change and Vulnerability Assessment in Lagoon Ecosystems through the Recording of Paleoenvironmental and Paleoecological Changes. Enhancement of Ecosystem Functions in Vulnerable Areas. 2020-2022

Technological and Business innovation services to stimulate the local Agro-food ecosystems and to support a Cross Border Collaboration among Local Action Groups. European Union – 2020. 

INTERREG EUROPE (PGI02462): GPP4GROWTH. 2019. Improving policies to boost SME competitiveness and extraversion in EU coastal and rural areas. 

Life Cycle Assessment of Aquaculture production in Greece. HELLENIC AQUACULTURE PRODUCERS’ ORGANIZATION (HAPO) 2023

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

The Climatological and Agricultural History of Samos – Geoarchaeological and Archaeohydrological Investigations in the Chora Plain and the Environment of the Heraion of Samos, 2019-2024. Project Partner Funding DFG German Research Council 

Palaeo-Science and History (PS&H). Funding Max Plank Institute for the Science of Human History, 2018-2023. Associate Member – External Partner.

Zakynthos Archeological Research Project – Amsterdam Archaeological center funded University of Amsterdam 2011-2015. Domesticated Landscapes of the Peloponnese (DoLP). External Partner, Swedish Research Council (Stockholm Universitet REF.463).

Scales of Transformation – Human-environmental interaction in prehistoric and archaic societies – Transformations in early Greek societies and landscapes 2017-2018, German Research Foundation (DFG).

Prefecture of Western Greece. Sedimentological, Geochemical, and Hydrochemical Processes in the Pinios Dam Reservoir 2023-2025.

Directives and Environmental Monitoring Protocols for Aquaculture Units – Application of an Environmental Simulation Model – Estimation of the Environmental Footprint on the Marine Ecosystem. HELLENIC AQUACULTURE PRODUCERS’ ORGANIZATION (HAPO) 2022-2024.

Zakynthos Archaeological Research Project. Funding University of Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, 2015.