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Ocean Modelling Scientist, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK (August 2019 - present).

Secondment (part-time, 50%), University of Liverpool, UK (May 2020 - present).

Post-doctoral Research Associate in Ocean Sciences, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK (Sept. 2016 - August 2019).


PhD in Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (2010-2016). Thesis: Non-linear coupling of scales of ocean variability and implications for downscaling

MSc in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2008-2010). Thesis: Sea Ice Data Assimilation for the Canadian East Coast

Ptychio (BSc Hons) in Physics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece (2003-2008). Thesis: Simulating and forecasting erythemal radiation time series using artificial neural networks


Member of the steering committee for the endorsed UN Ocean Decade Action “Future Coastal Ocean Climates” (FLAME) hosted by CoastPredict


Published in the leading Ocean and Climate Sciences journals: Nature Geoscience, Journal of Climate, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeosciences, Ocean Modelling, Environmental Research Letters, PNAS.

6 of my papers are used and referenced in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, AR6: Papers 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in my list of publications.


Presentations to major national and international conferences (selected)

  • April/May 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2014: European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU)
  • February 2022, 2020, 2018: Ocean Sciences meeting, AGU
  • September 2018: Challenger Society Conference
  • June 2014, 2012, 2010: Canadian Meteorological/Oceanographic Society Congress

Invited visits and talks (selected)

  • March 2022, Princeton University, USA (virtual seminar).
  • January 2019, The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
  • August 2018, The University of Bern.

Summer Schools & Workshops (selected)

  • Ferbuary 2022 (upcoming): Co-organising the first “Future Coastal Ocean Climates” (FLAME) international workshop.
  • June 2021: Participation to the CMIP6 Data Hackathon - part of the Met Office Climate Data Challenge Hackathon series during 2021. Led to a collaboration for addressing the effects of climate change on Biological Carbon Pump (paper 17 in my list of publications).
  • August 2018: Swiss Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) Summer School. Participation in this summer school is highly competitive and is limited to a maximum of 70 young researchers from all fields of climate research.

Diverse proven expertise in (demonstrated by my publications): ocean and climate sciences, shelf seas dynamics, numerical modelling for ocean/climate, downscaling methods for regional models, statistical methods for analysis and reconstruction of Earth system observations.