About us
Athanassios Tsikliras
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
ABOUT ATHANASSIOS
Athanassios Tsikliras is a full-time faculty member at the School of Biology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is also the coordinator of the MarinOmics Group and Head of the Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries Lab. His research focuses on fish biology and fisheries, stock assessment and management of Mediterranean fisheries, the effect of climate on marine populations, and ecosystem modelling/management. He has participated in 45 research projects and coordinated 15 of them, including the H2020 Project EcoScope. He served as a national expert in the Marine Strategy Coordination Group (2012-2015), as a reserve board member of Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (2010-2013), co-chaired the ICES Working Group on Small Pelagic Fishes, their Ecosystems and Climate Impact (2016-2019), and served as a vice-chair of Sea Around Us Advisory Board (2022-2025).
Konstantinos Touloumis
Fisheries Research Institute
ABOUT KONSTANTINOS
Konstantinos Touloumis is an Assistant Researcher at the Fisheries Research Institute (FRI) of ELGO Dimitra. He holds a BSc in Biology and a PhD in Population Ecology. Over the past 15 years, he has participated in numerous research projects as a scientific collaborator at both the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Fisheries Research Institute of ELGO Dimitra. His work spans a broad range of topics, including population dynamics, landscape ecology, connectivity and coherence of ecological features, taxonomic and functional diversity, fisheries management, fisheries data collection and processing, and stock assessment. Since 2017, he has been working under the Data Collection Framework for Greece at FRI in Kavala, serving as the lead scientific collaborator for the FRI task group responsible for data processing, data quality, and data call preparation.
Donna Dimarchopoulou
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
ABOUT DONNA
Donna Dimarchopoulou studied at the School of Biology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH, Greece), where she earned her BSc in Biology (2011), MSc in Hydrobiology-Aquaculture (2015), and PhD in Fisheries Biology and management (2020). Currently, she is a postdoctoral associate at AUTH and a guest investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA). In January 2026, she will begin her appointment as an Assistant Professor of ecosystem-based fisheries biology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research focuses on marine fisheries and ecosystem dynamics, using modeling to assess the impacts of fishing regulations and climate change on the sustainability of marine populations.