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Dr Maria Chara Karypidou

  • Position: Research Fellow in Climate Change Impacts on Food Safety
  • Areas of expertise: Regional Climate Modelling; Euro-CORDEX; CORDEX-Africa; Climate Impacts on Human Health; Climate Impacts on Food Safety
  • Email: M.Karypidou@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: 11.06 Priestley Building
  • Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Scopus

Profile

I am Research Fellow in Climate Change Impacts on Food Safety working in the AMBROSIA EU Horizon Project.
My academic journey began in September 2011, when I enrolled in the bachelor’s program in Geography at the University of the Aegean, in Mytilene, Greece (2011-2015). Early in my studies, I developed a strong interest in meteorology and climatology, which guided me to pursue an MSc (2015-2017) and subsequently a PhD (2018-2022) at the Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Aristolte University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Past Projects

  • H2020, LC-SFS-19-2018-2, Resilient farming by adaptive microclimate managements, STARGATE (2019-2024).
  • NSRF 2014-2020: Digital application for the prediction of mosquito nuisance Mosquito vision (2021-2023).
  • H2020-SFS-2016-2017, SFS-43-2017, Enhancing Food Security in African agricultural systems with the support of remote sensing, Africultures (2017-2022).
  • Scholarship for PhD candidate M.C. Karypidou, Assessment of precipitation errors and uncertainty in climate simulations over Africa: investigation of physical processes (2019-2022).
  • NSRF 2014-2020: Establishment of and Early Warning System for Mosquito-borne diseases and implementation of new vector control tooLs in the urban environment, EWSMD (2018-2021).

Research interests

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  1. Karypidou, M. C., Almpanidou, V., Tompkins, A. M., Mazaris, A. D., Gewehr, S., Mourelatos, S., Katragkou, E., (2020): Projected shifts in the distribution of malaria vectors due to climate change. Climatic Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02926-9
  2. Domakinis, C., Mouratidis, A., Voudouris, K., Astaras, T., Karypidou, M. C. (2020): Flood susceptibility mapping in Erythropotamos river basin with the aid of Remote Sensing and GIS. AUC Geographica 55(2), https://doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2020.11
  3. Alexandridis, T., Ovakoglou G., Cherif I., Gomez Gimenez M., Laneve G., Kasampalis D., Moshou D., Kartsios S., Karypidou M. C., Katragkou E., Herrera Garcia S., Kganyago M., Mashiyi N., Pattnayak K., Challinor A., Pritchard R., Brockington D., Kagoyire C., Suarez Beltran J., (2020): Designing AfriCultuReS services to support food security in Africa. Transactions in GIS, https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12684
  4. Karypidou, M. C., Katragkou, E., and Sobolowski, S. P.: Precipitation over southern Africa: is there consensus among global climate models (GCMs), regional climate models (RCMs) and observational data?, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 33873404, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3387-2022, 2022.
  5. Charitonidou, M., Kougioumoutzis, K., Karypidou M. C., Halley, J. M.,: Fly to a safer North: distributional shifts of the orchid Ophrys insectifera L. due to climate change, Biology 2022, 11, 497. (Editor’s choice for monthly cover)
  6. Karypidou, M. C., Sobolowski, S. P., Sangelantoni, L., Nikulin, G., and Katragkou, E.: The impact of lateral boundary forcing in the CORDEX-Africa ensemble over southern Africa, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 18871908, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1887-2023, 2023.
  7. Pavlidis, V., Kganyago, M., Mukhawana, M., Alexandridis, T., Cherif, I., Laneve, G., Orsi, R., Kartsios, S., Karypidou, M. C., Sofiadis, I., Katragkou, E., A drought monitoring and early warning service for food security in South Africa. Climate Services. 2024, 34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100463

Qualifications

  • PhD, "Meteorology and Climatology and Atmospheric Environment", AUTh, 2022
  • MSc, "Meteorology and Climatology and Atmospheric Environment", AUTh, 2017
  • BA in Geography, University of the Aegean, 2015