Athanasios Vafeidis

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Athanasios Vafeidis

Athanasios Vafeidis (born February 14, 1969 in Athens ) is a Greek geographer and university professor .

Scientific career

From 1986 to 1993 Athanasios Vafeidis studied at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and completed his studies with a " Master of Engineering " in civil and surveying engineering . From 1993 to 1994 he studied at the University of London at King's College , where he obtained his Masters in physical geography . He was a PhD student at King's College from 1996 to 2001 and received his PhD in physical geography in 1996 . In 2001 he was a PhD research fellow at the Flood Risk Research Center at Middlesex University . Athanasios Vafeidis has been visiting scholar at the University of Southampton and the University of the Aegean since 2004 . In 2008 he received a professorship for "Coastal Risk Management" at the Institute for Geography as part of the Cluster of Excellence "Future Ocean" at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

honors and awards

  • 1997 British Chevening Scholarship, British Council UK

Research projects

  • 2009 - 2012 "COMPASS - Comparative Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise"

Selected publications

  • Houghton, K., Vafeidis, AT, Neumann, B., Proelss, A. (2010) Maritime Boundaries in a rising sea. Nat Geosci. 3 (11), 803 - 806, doi : 10.1038 / ngeo1029 .
  • Vafeidis, AT, Drake, NA, Wainwright, J. (2007) A proposed method for modeling the hydrologic response of catchments to burning with the use of remote sensing and GIS. Catena 70 (3), 396-409.
  • Vafeidis, AT, Drake, NA (2005) A two step method for estimating the extent of burned areas with the use of coarse-resolution data. Int. J. Remote Sensing 26 (11) 2441-2459.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Renewal Proposal For a Cluster of Excellence The Future Ocean, The Future Ocean, August 8, 2011
  2. ↑ Profile of Athanasios Vafeidis on the website of Coastal Risks and Sea-Level Rise Workgroup Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 20, 2012 ; Retrieved November 28, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Vafeidis, Athanasios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens