Ioana Matei (Former member of the team)
Ioana has a background in environmental science, with a BSc in Ecology and a MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment from Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania. Her main interests include aquatic ecology, biological monitoring and biological invasions, having chosen to focus her degree research project on alien invasive species.
Following graduation (2014), she has worked in environmental consulting, framing and elaborating environmental studies and reports (SEA, EIA, AA, biodiversity monitoring reports), on various projects ranging from wind farms to management of Natura 2000 sites or coastal erosion. She also has good experience in field surveys, both on terrestrial and aquatic species (expecially on benthic communities and birds).
Ioana joined the EASIN team in January 2017 and her main tasks concerned the citizen science section of the project, aiming at developing a data validation method for the EASIN smartphone app.