Dr. Maria Thessalou-Legaki

Δρ. Μαρία Θεσσαλού-Λεγάκη

 

Associate Professor

Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια

Other activities

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS

 

1. Pancucci-Papadopoulou M.A., 1996. The Echinodermata of Greece. Fauna Graeciae VI, Hellenic Zoological Society, 162 pp.

2. Zenetos A., 1996. The Marine Bivalvia (Mollusca) of Greece. Fauna Graeciae VII, Hellenic Zoological Society, 319 pp.

3. Giokas S., Legakis A., Polymeni R., Sfenthourakis S., Thessalou-Legaki M., Zenetos A., (eds) 1999. Contributions to the Zoogeography and Ecology of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Hellenic Zoological Society vol. 1, 493 pp.

4. Giokas S., Legakis A., Polymeni R., Sfenthourakis S., Thessalou-Legaki M., Zenetos A. (eds) 1999. Contributions to the Zoogeography and Ecology of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Hellenic Zoological Society vol. 1 (suppl.), 80 pp.

5. Legakis A., Sfenthοurakis S., Polymeni R., Thessalou-Legaki M. (eds), 2003. The New Panorama of Animal Evolution, Proceedings of the 18^th International Congress of Zoology, Pensoft Publishers, 738 pp.

6. Thessalou-Legaki M. (ed.) 2006. Issues of Decapod Crustacean Biology. Proceedings of the 8^th Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, Hydrobiologia, 557, 160 pp.

7. 2010- Member of the Editorial Board of Mediterranean Marine Science.

 

Reviewer

Scientific Journals
· African Journal of Aquatic Science	2004
· Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências	2007
· Belgian Journal of Zoology	2000, 2002
· Crustacean Issues	1998
· Crustaceana	2001
· Fishery Bulletin	1998
· Hydrobiologia	2000, 2004
· Journal of Biological Research	2008, 2009
· Journal of Crustacean Biology	1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2007
· Journal of Marine Biological Association, U.K.	2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
· Journal of Natural History	1996
· Marine Biodiversity Records	2009, 2009,
· Marine Biology	1999
· Marine Ecology	2001
· Mediterranean Marine Science	2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 (2)
· Progress in Oceanography	2008 (2)
· Oceanologia	2005
· Ophelia	1997
· Scientia Marina, Barcelona	2000, 2003 (2)
Conferences
· CIESM	1997
· 12th Hellenic Congress of Ichthyologists	2005 (5)
· International Congress on Zoogeography and     Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions	1994, 1997
· 8th Hellenic Geographical Congress	2007
· 13th Hellenic Congress of Ichthyologists	2007 (6)
· 9th Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea	2009 (2)
· 9th Hellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries	2008 (9)
· 14th Hellenic Congress of Ichthyologists	2010 (5)
Projects
· Pythagoras II (Ministry of Education)	2004
· Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation	2008
· National Science Foundation, Biological Oceanography Program, USA	2007
· Greece-Germany Research projects	2009

 

Member of conference or working groups Organising committees

1^st International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and the Adjacent Regions (1978).

1^st Congress of the Hellenic Union of Biologists.

Working Group on Deep-Water Shrimps and Prawns (CIESM, Benthos Committee). Responsible for data collection for the Eastern Mediterranean (1987-90).

Training Workshop on the Statistical Treatment and Interpretation of Marine Community Data, FAO/IOCU/UNEP, Αθήνα, 18-29/9/1989.

Cοncertation Committee, Cost 647, Brussels, 4/4/1987 and 18/1/1990.

6^th International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and the Adjacent Regions (1993).

7^th International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and the Adjacent Regions (1996).

XVIII International Congress of Zoology “The New Panorama of Animal Evolution” Athens, Greece, 28 August-2 September 2000.

8^th Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea (Corfu, Greece, September 2002). President of the Organising Committee, member of the Scientific Committee.

13^rd Hellenic Congress of Ichthyologists (2007).

14^rd Hellenic Congress of Ichthyologists (2010).

2^nd Conference of the European Federation of Marine Science and Technology Societies, Athens, 15-16/10/2010.

 

SCHOOL BOOKS

Bourboulas B., Thessalou-Legaki M., 1981. Natural History, 5^th Elementary School grade, Hellenic School Books’ Publishing Board.

Kougianou S., Komitopoulou A., Papasideri I.S., Moschonas N., Thessalou-Legaki M., Legakis A., 1985. Biology-Biotechnology, 1^st Lyceion grade, Hellenic School Books’ Publishing Board.

 

MEMBER OF Scientific SOCIETIES

Hellenic zoological Society (foundation member and past member of the Board)

Hellenic Union of Biologists (past Vice-President)

Union of Greek Ecologists (foundation member)

Hellenic Union of Biological Sciences

International Committee for the Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (1978-today).

The Crustacean Society (1985-today)

International Crustacean Committee (2001).

 

ACTIVITIES for NATURE CONSERVATION (Membership)

Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature

Greek Scientific Committee for the Implementation of the CITES Convention, Ministry of Agriculture (1999-2004)

Board of WWF Hellas (2003-2008)

Board of Mom (Society for the Study and Protection of the Mediterranean Monk Seal) (2003, 2004, 2005)

Natura 2000 Committee, Ministry of the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works (2002-2005), in the framework of which the book “Natural Protected Sites: towards a integrated management system” 143 pp (in Greek) was published.

 

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

 

	Member of Election Boards for more than 30 academic staff members in the Universities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Crete and the Aegean
1982 -	Member of the School of Biology General Assembly, UoA
1996 - 2005	Member of the Committee for the Introduction to the School of Biology, UoA
2005 -	Examiner for the Introduction to the School of Biology, UoA
2000-7, 2009 -	Member of the Committee for Diploma Projects,  School of Biology, UoA
1998 - 2002	Examiner for under and postgraduate Scholarships, UoA
2005 - 2007	Member of the Committee for transition from other Greek Universities to the School of Biology,  UoA
2007 -	Member of the M.Sc. “Oceanography and Marine Environmental Management” Assembly
2007	Member of the Committee for the student selection for the MSc “Oceanography and Marine Environmental Management”
2009 -	Member of the Research Committee, School of Biology, UoA