CURRICULUM VITAE (Short, version: 9/2010)
PARISIS (PARIS) P. PAVLAKIS, Ph.D.
(1987, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, USA)
Current Professional Position:
Associate Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Work Address:
Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment
Department of Historical Geology - Paleontology
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens 15784, Greece
Tel / Fax: +30-210-7274880 E-Mail: pavlakis@geol.uoa.gr
Date of Birth: October 2, 1951
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Marital Status: -Married, two children
Citizenship: Greece, (Perm. Resident USA 1976-1989)
Education:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 1975, Diploma (BA) in Biology University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1980, M.A. in Anthropology (Physical)
University of California, Riverside (UCR), 1980-1982, UC Intercampus Exchange Graduate Student, Department of Earth Sciences (Section of Vertebrate Paleontology)
New York University, (NYU),1985, M. Phil. in Anthropology (Physical)
New York University, 1987, Ph.D. in Anthropology (Physical)
Title of Ph.D. Thesis:
Biochronology, Paleoecology and Biogeography of the Western Rift Plio-Pleistocene Mammal Fossil Faunas (East-Central Africa), and Implications for Hominid Evolution. (NYU, 1987, Dept. of Anthropology, 503 pg.)
-U.M.I. Dissertation Abstracts Database, 1988
(Dissertation Order Number: 8722781-1988)
Title of M.A. Thesis:
Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the African Ramapithecus.
(UCLA, 1980, Dept. of Anthropology, 184 pg.)
Positions:
Researcher, International Sahabi Research Project, G.S.P.L.A.J. (Libya), 1978 -1987
Research Assistant, Paleoanthropology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, NYU, 1982 -1984
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, NYU, 1984 -1985 Researcher, International Semliki Paleoanthropology Research Expedition, Zaire, 1984 -1995
Resident Researcher in Paleoanthropology, Department of Biological Anthropology, Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville Virginia, USA, 1986-1988
Lecturer (Instructor), Dept. of Biology, Patrick Henry Community College, Martinsville, Virginia, USA, 1986 -1987
Research Associate, Department of Biological Anthropology, Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville Virginia, 1988 -1993
Visiting Scholar, Department of Anatomy, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece, 1988 -1989
Director, Field Research, International Semliki Research Expedition, Zaire, 1988- 1989
Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, University of Ioannina Medical School, 1989 -1993
Co-Principal Investigator, International Semliki Research Expedition, Zaire, 1989
Fellow, and Member Scientific Advisory Board (1991-93), International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research, Oregon, USA, 1991 - present
Principal Investigator, Epirus Paleoanthropology Research Program, Ioannina, Greece, 1992 - 1996
Examiner in Paleoanthropology, Graduate Foreign Studies Scholarship Program, National Research Foundation (IKY), Athens, Greece, 1992
Assistant Professor of Human Anatomy and Evolution, Department of Anatomy, University of Ioannina, Medical School, Ioannina, Greece, 1993 - 1998
Researcher, International Rudabanya Paleoanthropology Research Expedition, Hungary, 1993 - 1994
Examiner in Human Gross Anatomy, Foreign Medical Students Entrance to Greek Medical Exams, 1994 - 1997
Director, Field Research, Paleontological Research Project of Katharo Plateau, Lasithi, Crete 1998 – 2002
Associate Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, Greece, 2000-present
Institutional Principal Investigator for National and Kapodistrian University of Athens “Pythagoras I” and “Pythagoras II” EPEAEK Environmental Research Funding Programs, 2004- 2008
Member Scientific Researchers, East Libya Neogene Research Project, 2006-present
Liaison, Univ. of Athens – Garyounis Univ., Libya Cooperation Agreement 2009-present
Field Research:
-International Sahabi Research Project, Libya. Researcher, Paleontological Excavations and Survey, June- September, 1978
-International Semliki Research Expedition, Zaire. Researcher, Paleontological Excavations and Survey, January - April, 1984
-International Semliki Research Expedition, Zaire. Director, Field Research. Paleontological Excavations at Senga 13-B, Upper Semliki Valley, June – September 1989
-Epirus Paleoanthropological Research Programme, Ioannina, Greece, Principal Investigator, Cave excavations and Survey, 1992 - 1996
-Vatos Cave Paleontological Research Expedition, Xeromerion Evritanias, Greece, Principal Investigator, Cave survey, 1992
-International Rudabanya Paleoanthropology Research Expedition, Hungary, Researcher, Paleontological excavations, 1993-1994
-Grava Cave Paleontological and Paleoanthropological Survey Expedition, Gardiki Corfu, Greece, Principal Investigator, Cave survey, 1994
-Paleontological Research Project of Katharo Plateau, Lasithi, Crete, Principal Researcher, Paleontological excavations, 1998-2001
-East Libya Neogene Research Project, Director, Field Research, As-Sahabi, Libya, Vertebrate Paleontology, February 1- March 6, 2007
- East Libya Neogene Research Project, Director, Field Research, As-Sahabi, Libya, Vertebrate Paleontology, February 5 – March 3, 2008
-East Libya Neogene Research Project, Director, Field Research, Jabal Zaltan and As-Sahabi, Libya, Vertebrate Paleontology, January 4 - March 1, 2010
Museum / Laboratory Research:
Anthropological-Paleodemographic study of the human skeletal material excavated in the Byzantine Western Cemetery of Thessaloniki, Greece; Laboratory of Anthropology, Dept. of Anatomy, University of Ioannina, Greece, 1989-1994
Paleontological taxonomic study of the hippopotamid material of Middle/Upper Pleistocene age found in the Katanda sites of the Semliki valley, Zaire; American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. and Virginia Museum of Natural History, USA, 1990.
Paleontological taxonomic study of the Plio-Pleistocene fossil mammalian sample found at the site Sn13 in Semliki, Zaire; Virginia Museum of Natural History and National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), USA, 1990-1992
Paleontological taxonomic study of the hippopotamid material of Pleistocene age found in Angola; American Museum of Natural History, NY, USA, 1990
Paleobiogeographic analysis of the results of the Conference: “Evolution of Neogene Continental Biotopes in Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (15.5 – 5 Ma)”, held in Immendingen and Schloss Reisensburg in 1992; Karlsruhe Natural History Museum, Germany, 1993.
Comparative morphological and taxonomic study of the Middle Pleistocene fossil mammal sample I recovered from the Perama Cave in Ioannina; Human Evolution and Prehistory Laboratory, University of Shkoder, Albania, 1994
Anthropological - Paleodemographic study of the human skeletal material recovered at the Archeological excavations in Varassova Aitoloakarnania, Greece; Laboratory of Anthropology, Dept. of Anatomy, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece, 1994-1995
Anthropological - Paleodemographic study of the human skeletal material recovered at the Archeological excavations in Lefkas island, Greece; Laboratory of Anthropology, Dept. of Anatomy, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece, 1995-1998
Paleontological taxonomic study of the hippopotamid material of Pleistocene age found at Kathero, Lasithi, Crete, Greece; Paleontological Museum of the University of Athens, 2000-present
Paleontological taxonomic study of the As-Sahabi Hippotamidae and Anthracotheriidae fossil material (2007 field season), temporarily housed in the Museum of Paleontology, University of Athens, 2007-present
Paleontological taxonomic study of the As-Sahabi Hippotamidae and Anthracothiidae material housed in the Natural History section of the National Museum of Tripolis, Libya, October 20-23, 2007
Teaching:
- Undergraduate courses:
“ Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology”. Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, NYU, USA , (Fall semesters, 1984 and 1985) “Human Gross Anatomy and Physiology”. Lecturer (Instructor), Department of Biology, Patric Henry Community College, Martinsville, Virginia, USA, (Fall
semester, 1986)
“Human Gross Anatomy I and II”. Lecturer / Assistant Professor. Department of Anatomy, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece (Fall and Spring semesters, 1988-1998, part of the course)
“Introduction to Physical Anthropology”. Lecturer / Assistant Professor. Department of Anatomy, University of Ioannina Medical School (Fall semesters, 1990-1998)
“Paleontology II” Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, Athens Greece, (Spring semesters, 2000- 2004, part of the course)
“Macropaleontology” Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, (Spring semesters, 2004 - present, part of the course)
“Vertebrate Paleontology” Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, (Spring semesters, 2001- present, part of the course)
“Paleoecology - Ecostromatography” Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, (Spring semesters, 2001- present, part of the course)
“Evolutionary Paleontology” Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, (Spring semesters, 2006- present)
“Paleoanthropology” Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, (Fall semesters, 2006- present)
-Graduate courses:
“Methodology of Paleontology” Graduate Program “Paleontology and Stratigraphy”. Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, Greece (Fall semesters, 2000- present, part of the course)
“Biostatistics and Biometry in Paleontology” Graduate Program “Paleontology and Stratigraphy”. Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology University of Athens, (Fall semesters, 2000- present, part of the course)
“Macroevolution and Large Mammal Faunal Turnover” Graduate Program “Paleontology and Stratigraphy”. Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, University of Athens, (Spring semesters, 2001- present, part of the course)
“Land Paleoecosystems” Graduate Program “Paleontology and Stratigraphy”. Associate Professor, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology University of Athens, (Spring semesters, 2001- present, part of the course)
MEMBER OF DOCTORAL AND B.A. THESES SUPERVISING COMMITTEES
Doctoral Theses
- Taxonomic and Paleoecological study of Greek Pleistocene Avifaunas. Implications to Homo Paleoecology. Supervisor. In progress.
- Biostratigraphic and temporal relations between the Miocene Sahabi and Maradah Formations, Libya. Contribution to the age determination of their contained mammalian paleofaunas. Supervisor. In progress.
- Paleoneurology of Canidae Brain. Its Evolution and Role in Carnivore Mammal Ecology. Member of Supervising Committee. 2007
- Diet of Bronze Age Greek Populations. Member of Supervising Committee. Dept. of Biology, 2007
- 3D morphometric analysis of cranial variation in Greek populations. Member of Supervising Committee. Dept. of Biology. In progress
- Skeleton stress and nutritional pathology in Greek populations of Copper and Geometric Ages. Member of Supervising Committee. Dept. of Biology. In progress
- Upper extremity musculoskeletal stress in southern Greek populations of Copper Age. Member of Supervising Committee. Dept. of Biology. In progress
B.A. Theses
- Taxonomy of Petralona skull. Supervisor. 2008.
- Taxonomy and Paleoecology of Hippopotamus from Kathro, Lasithi, Crete. Supervisor. In progress.
- Taxonomic study of large mammal postcrania fossil sample from Sahabi, Libya. In progress.
- Introduction of Biological Evolution Concept in Education. In progress.
- History of the development of Darwinian Evolutionary Paradigm in paleontological research. In progress
Publications:
Bernor, R.L., and Pavlakis, P. (1987) Zoogeographic Relationships of the Sahabi Large Mammal Fauna (Early Pliocene, Libya). In: Neogene Paleontology and Geology of Sahabi. Boaz, NT, et. al., (eds) New York: A.R. Liss. Pp. 349-383
Bernor, R., Flynn, L.J, P. Pavlakis (1988) Old World Neogene mammal provinciality and its bearing on continental geochronology. NATO ASI series A. Life Sciences. 180 (1988):11-12.
Pavlakis, P. (1990) "Plio-Pleistocene Hippopotamidae from the Upper Semliki, Zaire". Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoirs 1:203-224
Boaz, N.T., Pavlakis, P., and A. Brooks (1990) "Late Pleistocene and Holocene Hominids from Ishango Zaire". Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoirs 1:273-300
Boaz, N.T., Pavlakis, P., (1990). Late Pliocene Hominid Environments in the Western Rift, Zaire (Abstract). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2):196
Boaz, N.T., Bernor, R.L., Brooks, A., Cooke H.B.S., Dechamps, R., de Heinzelin, J., Delson, E., Harris, J.W.K., Gentry, A., Meylan P., Pavlakis, P., Sanders, W.J., Stewart, K.M., Verniers, J., Williamson, P.G., and Winkler, A.J., (1992) "A New Evaluation of the Palaeoanthropological, Palaeontological and Geological
Significance of the Late Neogene Lusso Beds (Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire)". Journal of Human Evolution 22:505-507.
Boaz, N.T., Pavlakis, P., MacDonnel, M. (1994) "Early Hominid Environments in the Late Pliocene of Eastern Zaire.The Sn13B Excavation". National Geographic Research and Exploration 10(1):124-127
Fistani, A. B., Pavlakis, P., Simeonides, N., (1997). First Discovery of Hystrix primigenia Wagner from the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene deposits of Shahinova, Berat, South Albania. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien. 98A pp.155-172
Pavlakis, P., Fistani, A., Simeonides, N.n (1999) New Evidence of Middle Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna from the Perama Cave (Ioannina, Greece). ). Chapter 5. In: E. Adam, G. Bailey, E. Panagopoulou, C. Perles & K. Zachos (eds.). The Paleolithic Archaeology of Greece and Adjacent Areas: Proceedings of the ICOPAG
Conference, Ioannina, September 1994. London:British School at Athens Studies 3. 1999, p.97-107
Pavlakis, P. (1999). The Messinian Events and the Greek Fossil Mammal Record. Deinsea, Natuur Museum Rottterdam., Rotterdam, The Netherlands. September, 1999. p.233-252
Pavlakis, P. (1999). The Natural History of the Island Hippopotamids. Biologia Gallo- hellenica, 25(2):143-156
Pavlakis, P., Dermitzakis, M.D., Drinia, M., Antonarakou, A, Tsourou, Th. (1999). Paleobiological Reconstruction of the Kathero Plain. Biologia Gallo- hellenica, 25(2):157-186
Pavlakis, P., Simeonides, N., Fistani, A., (2000). The Mid-Pleistocene Ursus fauna of the Perama Cave, Ioannina, Greece .Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of Hellenic Speleological Society: Cave Development, Evolution and Environment. Bulletin of the Hellenic Speleological Society XXI:340-360 (in Greek).
Dermitzakis, M., Pavlakis, P., and X. Ntrinia (2005) The Pleistocene hippopamids of the Kathro Plateau, Lasithi, Crete. Preliminary Report. Proceedings of the 2nd Cretan Speleological Symposium. Hellenic Speleological Society of Crete: Iracleion, Crete, pg 53-59. (in Greek).
Boaz, N.T., A. El-Arnauti, J. Agusti, R.L. Bernor, P. Pavlakis and L. Rook (2008) Temporal, Lithostratigraphic and Biochronologic Setting of the Sahabi Formation, Notrh Central Libya.. In: Sedimentary Basins of Libya. Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium: Geology of East Libya 2008, Vol 3. M Sallem et al., (Eds). NOC-
ESSL: Tripoli, Libya, pp. 959-972
Boaz, N.T., A. El-Arnaouti, and P. Pavlakis, (2008) The Brief History of As Sahabi Research and Collections. In: Circum- Mediterranean Geology and Biotic Evolution During the Neogene Period: The Perspective from Libya. N.T. Boaz, A. El-Aranouti, P. Pavlakis and M.Salem (Eds.), Garyounis Scientific Boulletin, Special
Issue No. 5, pp. 1-12
Pavlakis, P., (2008) Rediscovered Hippopotamid remains from As Sahabi. In: Circum- Mediterranean Geology and Biotic Evolution During the Neogene Period: The Perspective from Libya. N.T. Boaz, A. El- Aranouti, P. Pavlakis and M.Salem (Eds.), Garyounis Scientific Boulletin, Special Issue No. 5, pp.179-188.
Pavlakis, P., and N.T.Boaz (2008) Newly discovered Anthracotheriidae sample from As-Sahabi. In: Circum-Mediterranean Geology and Biotic Evolution During the Neogene Period: The Perspective from Libya. N.T. Boaz, A. El-Aranouti, P. Pavlakis and M.Salem (Eds.), Garyounis Scientific Boulletin, Special Issue No. 5,
pp.189-204
Benefit, B.R., M. McCrossin, N.T.Boaz, and P. Pavlakis (2008) New Fossil Cercopithecoids from the Late Miocene of As Sahabi, Libya. In: Circum Mediterranean Geology and Biotic Evolution During the Neogene Period: The Perspective from Libya. N.T. Boaz, A. El-Aranouti, P. Pavlakis and M.Salem (Eds.), Garyounis
Scientific Boulletin, Special Issue No. 5, pp.265-282
Pavlakis, P.,P., (2008) New Libycosaurus petrocchii Skull from As Sahabi: Paleoecological and Biochronological implications. Sedimentary Basins of Libya. 4th Symposium. Geology of Southern Libya. pp77
Benefit, B.R., Salem, R.M., McCrossin, M.L., Boaz, N.T., Pavlakis, P. (2009). New fossil papionins from the Late Miocene of As Sahabi, Libya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology: 88-88, Suppl. 48
Pavlakis, P.P., (2009) Darwin and the Theory of Evolution. Istoria:498, pg. 42-55 (in Greek)
Muftah A.M., Triantaphyllou M.V., El-Mehaghag, A.A., Pavlakis, P., Boaz N.T. late Miocene Formation from As Sahabi, Sirt Basin, Libya in correlation to isochronous SE Europe deposits: A paleoclimatic approach. Presented in: XIX Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association. Thessaloniki, Greece, 23-26
September 2010. Published in Geologica Balcanica. 39.1-2. Sofia 2010 Pg:267-8.
Monographs:
Pavlakis, P. 1994. Anthropological Study of Skeletal Material of Byzantine Period of the Western Cemetery of Thessaloniki. Ekdoseis Kodikas: Thessaloniki (in Greek), 45 pg.
Pavlakis, P. 1996. Anthropological Study of Skeletal Material of the Archaeological Excavations at Site Ξ, North Section of Cave Saint Nikolas,Varassova, Aitoloakarnania. Ekdoseis Kodikas: Thessaloniki (in Greek), 13 pg.
Pavlakis, P. 1998. Anthropological Study of Skeletal Material of the Archaeological Excavations in Lefkada. Ekdoseis Kodikas: Thessaloniki (in Greek) 52 pg.
Editor:
Garyounis Scientific Bulletin, Special Issue Number 5, (2008)
Circum-Mediterranean Geology and Biotic Evolution during the Neogene Period: The Perspective of Libya.
Edited by N.T. Boaz, A. El-Arnauti, P. Pavlakis and M. Salem.
Garyounis University Research Center, Bīnghazi, G.S.P.L.A.J. (Libya)
Participation in Conferences:
Pavlakis, P. "Plio-Pleistocene Hippopotamids from Ishango". Presented in the Conference titled: Preliminary Results of Geological, Paleontological, Paleoanthropological and Archeological Research in the Upper Semliki, Zaire. Organized by the Semliki Research Expedition. Held in the U.C. Berkeley California,
April 15-17, 1986.
Bernor, R.L., Flynn, L.J., and P., Pavlakis."Old World Neogene Mammalian Provinciality and its Bearing on the Continental Geochronology". Presented in the Conference titled: European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Organized by Karlsruhe Natural History Museum. Held in Schloss Reisenburg, Germany, May 16-
20, 1988. Published in NATO ASI series A. Life Sciences. 180 (1988):11-12.
Boaz, N.T., and P. Pavlakis. "Late Pliocene Hominid Environments in the Western “Rift, Zaire". Presented in the: 59th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Held in Maiami, Florida April 3-7, 1990. Abstract published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2):196
Boaz, N.T., and P. Pavlakis. "Paleoecology of the Western Rift and Implications for “Hominid Evolution". Presented in the: Biennial Conference of the Society of Africanist Archeologists. Held in the University of Florida, March 22-25, 1990.
Pavlakis, P., "Advances on the Methodology of Large Mammal Continental Paleobiogeographic Correlations. The Case of Central Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Neogene Biotopes". Presented in the Conference titled: "Evolution of the Neogene Continental Biotopes in Central Europe and Eastern Mediterranean (15-5 Ma).
Organized by Howard University, Washington D.C., USA and the Karlsruhe Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe, Germany. Held in Immendingen and Schloss Reisensburg, Germany, 5-11 July 1992.
Pavlakis, P., Fistani, A., and N., Symeonides. "New Evidence of Middle Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna from the Perama Cave, Ioannina Greece." Presented in the: 1st International Conference on Paleolithic Greece and the Adjacent Areas. Organized by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the British Schoolof Archeology in
Greece. Held in Ioannina, 6-11 September 1994.
Pavlakis, P., Symeonides, N., and A., Fistani. "The new Bear Fossil Faunal Sample from the Perama Cave, Ioannina, reece." Presented in the: 5th International Congress of the Hellenic Speleological Society. Held in Athens, 7-11 November, 1994
Symeonides, N., and P., Pavlakis. "Review of the New Paleontological and Geological Data of the Pikermi Site. Presented in the: International Conference on the Biotic and Climatic Effects of the Messinian Event on the Circum Mediterranean. Organised by the International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research. Held in
Bīnghazi, G.S.P.L.A.J., 14-18 January, 1995.
Pavlakis, P., and N., Symeonides. "The Messinian Event and its Effects on the Neogene Vertebrate Faunas in Greece." Presented in the: International Conference on the Biotic and Climatic Effects of the Messinian Event on the Circum Mediterranean.Organised by the International Institute for Human Evolutionary
Research. Held in Bīnghazi, G.S.P.L.A.J., 14-18 January, 1995.
Pavlakis, P., and N., Symeonides. Paleoanthropology in Greece. Current Chronological, Paleontological and Paleoecological Status and Problems. Presented in the: Conference on Paleoanthropological Advances in Eastern and Central Europe. Organised by the International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research. Held in
Bend Oregon, USA, 15-18 April 1995.
Pavlakis, P., Messinian Event and Hominid Origins. A Causative Relation? Presented in the: International Conference “Paleoanthropology of the Mani Peninsula, So. Peloponnese, Greece”. Organized by the Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens. Held in Athens and Mani, Sep. 25-28, 1998.
Pavlakis, P., Lyras, G., and M., Dermitzakis. Hippopotamidae from the Pleistocene of Kahtaro, Lasithi, Crete. Presented in the: “1st International Workshop on the The Vatera Fauna”. Organized by the Dept. of Hist. Geology – Paleontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Univ. of Athens. Held in Polychnitos,
Lesvos, 29/9 – 2/10/1999.
Pavlakis, P., and N.T. Boaz. Taxonomic, Biochronological and Paleoecological aspects of As- Sahabi, Hippotamidae and Anthracotheriidae. Presented in the: “International Research Conference and Workshop on Euro-African Biotic Evolution in the Neogene” Organized by the Dept. of Hist. geology – Paleontology, Faculty of
Geology and Geoenvironment, Univ. Of Athens, International Institute of Human Evolutionary research and east Libya Neogene Research Project. Held in Athens, November 23-24, 2006.
Pavlakis. The new Libycosaurus material recovered from As-Sahabi during the 2007-2008 fieldseasons. Biochronological and paleoecological implications. “The “Geology of Southern Libya”, 4th International Conference on the Sedimentary Basins of Libya. Organized by: Earth Sciences Society of Libya, Tripoli Libya, 17-
20/11/2008
Muftah A.M., Triantaphyllou M.V., El-Mehaghag, A.A., Pavlakis, P., Boaz N.T. late Miocene Formation from As Sahabi, Sirt Basin, Libya in correlation to isochronous SE Europe deposits: A paleoclimatic approach. Presented in: XIX Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association. Thessaloniki, Greece, 23-26
September 2010. Published in Geologica Balcanica. 39.1-2. Sofia 2010 Pg:267-8.
Invited Lectures:
"Biogeography of the Western Rift Mammal Faunas and Implications to Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Evolution". Given in the: Paleoanthropological Research Seminar, organized by the Virginia Museum of Natural History, held in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, April 4, 1990.
"Caves and the Hominid fossil record in Greece". Invited by the Historical and Archeological Society of Western Greece, given in the Municipal theatre of Agrinion Greece, on November 30, 1990, (in Greek).
"Paleoanthropology, Subject and Methodology. The Semliki Research Expedition." In: Graduate Seminar of the Dept. of Biochemistry, held in the University of Ioannina Medical School, April 1991, (in Greek).
"Paleoanthropological and Paleontological results of the International Paleoanthropology Research Expedition in Zaire". In the seminar: Scientific and Athletic Speleology, given in Athens. Sponsored by the Greek Speleological Society, on April 24, 1991, (in Greek).
"Paleoanthropology in Caves. The Case of the South African Caves: Taung,Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Magapansgat and Kromdrai." In the seminar: ,Scientific and Athletic Speleology, held in Athens. Sponsored by the Greek Speleological Society, on May 25, 1992, (in Greek).
"The Methodology of Paleoanthropology" First part of a seminar held in the Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Shkoder, Albania in the morning of April 7, 1994
"The State-of-the-Art of the Paleoanthropological Research" The second part of the above seminal given the afternoon of April 7, 1994
"Modern Paleoanthropological Research and its relation to the Paleoanthropological Practice in Greece" In the seminar: Scientific and Athletic Speleology, held in Athens. Sponsored by the Greek Speleological Society, on April 13, 1994, , (in Greek).
Series of talks on Paleontology and Paleoanthropology I gave at the Workforce Training Seminar: "Cave Tour Guides", held for three months at the University of Ioannina, in 1996, (in Greek).
“The Natural History of Hippotamus.” In the open seminar “The Plateau Katharo-Kritsa during Paleontological Times” Organized by the Pref. of Lasithi, Eastern Crete Arts & Letters Association and the Kritsa Cultural Association, held in Kritsa, Lasihi, Crete, June, 27, 1999, (in Greek).
"Why Sahabi?". Organized by the Dept of Earth Sciences, held in Garyounis University in Bīnghazi, G.S.P.L.A.J., 5th of March, 2007.
Organized Seminars and Conferences:
1996. Centre of Workforce Training Seminar, (K.E.K. , 312 hours), titled ‘Cave Tour Guides’ in the University of Ioannina. April – June, 1996, ( in Greek).
2006. International Research Conference and Workshop titled “Euro-African Biotic Evolution in the Neogene”, in the University of Athens, November 23-24, 2006
Chaired Conference Sessions:
- I chaired the round table Session ‘Co-ordination of Paleoanthropological Research in Central and South-Eastern Europe’, in the International Conference on Paleoanthropological Advances in Eastern and Central Europe. Held in Bend Oregon, USA, 15-18 April 1995. Organised by the International Institute for Human
Evolutionary Research.
-I co-chaired the 24th of June afternoon session “ Paleontology-Stratigraphy- Sedimentology”, of the 11th International Conference of the Geological Society of Greece, “Geoenvironment, Past, Present, Future”.
-I chaired the afternoon sessions of the International Research Conference and Workshop “Euro-African Biotic Evolution in the Neogene”, University of Athens, November 23 and 24, 2006
Grants, Fellowships:
1983. Explorers Club Grant for Field Work in the Upper Semliki, Zaire
1985. Boise Fund Research Grant for the study of the Kaiso Formation mammalian faunas in the British Museum (Natural History), London
1987-1988. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral research fellowship, through the S.R.E. for research in the Department of Biological Anthropology, Virginia Museum of Natural History.
1989. Centre for Field Research (Earthwatch) sponsorship for, Director, Field research, in the Paleoanthropological field research conducted in Senga, the Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire by S.R.E.
1990. Centre for Field Research (Earthwatch) sponsorship of Co-Principal Investigator in the Paleoanthropological field research conducted in the Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire by S.R.E.
1993. Individual Mobility Grant from the European Union Tempus Program to visit and collaborate with Dr. A. Fistani, Lab. of Human Evolution and Prehistory, Univ. of Shkoder, Albania.
1996. K.E.K. (Centre of Workforce Training), Grant for the organisation of 312 hours Seminar titled titled ‘Cave Tour Guides’ in the University of Ioannina.
2006. Univ. of Athens, Ministry of Education, President of Greek Parliament, for organizing the International Research Conference and Workshop “Euro-African Biotic Evolution in the Neogene
2007. National Science Foundation subcontractor (Dr. B. Benefit and Dr. M. McCrossin, New Mexico State University) for paleontological fieldwork in As-Sahabi, G.S.P.L.A.J, 2007.
Membership in Scientific Organizations:
- Fellow of the International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research, Oregon, USA (1991- present)
- Local Treasurer for Greece, European Anthropological Association (1994-2000)
Associations:
Paleoanthropological Society
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
European Anthropological Association
Hellenic Speleological Association
New York Academy of Sciences
Languages Spoken:
Greek, English, Spanish, French.
Research Focus:
-Paleoanthropology
-Origins of Family Hominidae
-Mammalian Paleontology
-Family Hippopotamidae
-Family Anthracotheriidae
- Taphonomy, Paleoecology, Paleobiogeography and Biochronology
Large Mammals, Old World Neogene, S.E. circun – Mediterranean
-History of Evolutionary Theory and Methodology of Paleontology & Paleoanthropology.