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: Googlescholar
Profile
• ERASMUS-Placement at the TAMSAT Research Group, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, UK. Erasmus Placement Program (01/07/2014-30/09/2014) Supervisor: Dr. Elena Tarnavsky Project Title: Defining Zones of Homogeneous Precipitation over Africa for the Calibration of the TAMSAT Rainfall Algorithm.
• DAAD, The Mediterranean Hot-Spot: Challenges and Responses in a Changing Environment (2017-2019).
• H2020-SFS-2016-2017, SFS-43-2017, Enhancing Food Security in African agricultureal systems with the support of remote sensing, Africultures (2017-2022).
• State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Greece-Germany bilateral cooperation, Impact of Land Use Changes on regional and local climate in Europe: present and future climate projections (LUCE), IKYDA (2018-2020).
• EC, H2020, LC-SFS-19-2018-2, Resilient farming by adaprtive micriclimate managements (STARGATE) (2019-2023).
• Region of Central Macedonia, Digital Application for the prediction of nuicance for Mosquitoes (Mosquito Vision) (2022).
Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree in Geography, University of the Aegean (2011-2015)
- MSc in
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2015-2017)
- PhD in Climate Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2018-2022)