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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).

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