National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology

Dr Socrates Roussiakis

Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology

Curriculum Vitae

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Research

Areas of Interest

Current research focuses on Neogene-Quaternary large mammal faunas, mammalian taxonomy, and the biostratigraphy of Greece.

Participation in Research Projects - Field Work

Participated in many palaeontological excavations, fieldwork and research projects: in Attica (Pikermi, Vraona), Crete (Chania, Rethymnon), Dodecanese (Tilos, Rhodos), Euboea (Kerassia), Megalopolis (Peloponnesus),Corfu, Chios, Psara, Cyprus, and other sites of palaeontological interest. Recent research projects where I have been participated are as follows:

·      THALIS: “Publicity of our Natural Heritage: Use of State of State of the Art Technologies for the Digital Imprint and Reconstruction of a 3D Skeleton of the Last European Elephants” (2012 – present). Research Coordinator: Prof. Chr. Provatidis.

·      “Natural History Collection of Megalopolis” (2011 – present). Research Coordinator: Prof. G. Theodorou.

·      “The Last Hippopotamuses of Europe” (2010). Research Coordinator: Prof. G. Theodorou.

·      “Pikermi: Past, Present, Future” (2010). Research Coordinator: Prof. G. Theodorou.

·      “Palaeontological Excavations in Pikermi” (2010). Research Coordinator: Prof. G. Theodorou.

·      “Pikermi 107" (2008). Research Coordinator: Prof. G. Theodorou.

Research  Visitor in Museums

·          In July 2012 I visited the National History Museum in Paris (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire d’Anatomie Comparée) where I studied skeletal collections of extant giraffes under the supervision of Dr C. Lefèvre.

·         March 2010. Research visitor at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Paléontologie. Study of fossil mammals from Pikermi, Thessaloniki, Maragha, Turkey and others, under the supervision of Prof. P. Tassy.

·      August 2008. Research visitor at the Geological State Museum of Lausanne. Study of the Late Miocene fossil mammals from Samos under the supervision of Dr Robin Marchant.

·      July 2008. Research visitor at the Natural History Museum of London. Study of the Late Miocene fossil mammals from Pikermi and Samos under the supervision of Dr Andy Currant.

·    June 2007. Research visitor at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien through SYNTHESYS programme (AT-TAF-3283). Study of the Late Miocene fossils from Pikermi, Samos and Maragha (Iran) under the supervision of Dr Ursula Goelich. Study of the Pikermi collections stored at the Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Wien under the supervision of Dr Doris Nagel.

·     January 2005. Research visitor at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Study of the Late Miocene fossil mammal collections from Pikermi and Samos under the supervision of Dr Elmar Heizmann.

·       August 2001, December 2002, April 2003. Research visitor at the Natural History Museum of London. Study of the Late Miocene fossil mammal collections from Pikermi, Samos and Euboea under the supervision of Dr Jerry Hooker.

·          February-June 1994. Work at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Paléontologie through ERASMUS FREE MOVERS program. Study of the fossil mammals collections from Pikermi, Northern Greece and Maragha (Iran) under the supervision of Dr Léonard Ginsburg. Work at the Laboratoire d’Anatomie Comparée. Study of recent mammal collections under the supervision of Dr Armand de Ricqlès.
 

·     I have many times visited the Museum of Palaeontology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Department of Geology, Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology) and I have studied fossils from various Greek localities (Dytiko, Ravin de la Pluie, Ravin des Zouaves, Nikiti, Pentalophos, Perivolaki, Prochoma) under the supervision of Prof. G. Koufos and Assistant Prof. D. Kostopoulos.

Museum  Activity

Organisation of the vertebrate collections of the Museum of Palaeontology and Geology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Fossil preparation, taxonomic determination and database organisation of the fossil vertebrates.

Updated September 2016