She has a considerable experience in the research field of Ecology and Management of Mediterranean ecosystems in which she is actively engaged for the last 25 years. She has been elected and acted twice as the Secretary of the International Society of Mediterranean Ecologists (ISOMED) between 1987-1991 and from 2000 onwards. She has been a member of the working group established to support the Hellenic National Committee for the Implementation of UN Convention to Combat Desertification.Among other activities and commitments, she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Centre of Forest Fires. She has participated in more than 50 International Symposia - Conferences. She has published more than 60 scientific articles and she has edited 4 books published by (Dr Junk) Kluwer, Plenum Press and Millpress. She has supervised 10 Ph. D theses and more than 20 First Diploma Theses. She is actively involved in Environmental Education and Awareness Campaigns, for which she has also published a book.
Margarita was responsible for the revision of the information on terrestrial plant species of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for terrestrial plants.
He has a broad experience on invasion biology and ecology and he is currently engaged in European and Mediterranean projects aimed at investigating and managing climate-related impacts in coastal marine environments. He has been elected twice as Chair of the Committee C6 Coastal Systems and Marine Policy of the CIESM - International Commission for the Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea. Member of the CIESM exotic fish task force and of the Italian commission for introduced species in aquaculture. His scientific production presents an interdisciplinary spectrum of studies spanning from theoretical to applied aspects of marine bioinvasions, with a special focus on Mediterranean fishes. He also served as a regional expert for UN bodies such as FAO, GFCM, UNEP/MAP and other international organizations.
Ernesto is a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for marine fish.
He has a broad interest in invertebrate taxonomy, phylogeny and population genetics, with a particular focus on terrestrial gastropods.
As such, he has been President of Unitas Malacologica, and he is member of the editorial boards of, amongst others, “Journal of Molluscan Studies”, “Malacologia”, and “Iberus”, and he is subject editor for Gastropoda for “ZooKeys”. Thierry has supervised 20 PhD- and >40 MSc-theses, and he was member of >65 PhD juries (own PhD students not included) in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the UK. He is (co-) author of >200 papers in impact factor journals, >55 papers in peer-reviewed journals without impact factor, and 39 popular science papers. He acts as reviewer for >70 scientific journals and for >20 research fund organizations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, EC, Israel, South-Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK, and the USA.
Thierry has revised the EASIN list of the terrestrial snails and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for terrestrial snails.
He is primarily an invasive species biologist, focusing on biological invasions in marine fishes. His broader research interests include marine biology, ecology, taxonomy, and conservation. His professional experience spans university teaching, project management, scientific consulting, natural history collection development and curation, and public outreach and awareness‑raising activities. Michel has also served as a regional expert for several United Nations agencies and international organizations, including FAO, GFCM, and IUCN.
He is a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, responsible for marine fishes (Actinopterygii and Elasmobranchii).
His research activities concern the study of flora, vegetation and phytogeography of Greece. He has been involved in research projects related to the alien flora of Greece and Europe. He also deals with monitoring, management and protection of rare and threatened plant species and habitats of Community interest (EU Directive 92/43). He is member of the board oh the Hellenic Botanical Society.
Ioannis was responsible for the revision of the information on terrestrial plant species of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for terrestrial plants.
Assunta is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the plant pathogenic Bacteria.
He wrote his PhD thesis about the distribution of non-indigenous peracarid crustaceans (amphipods, isopods, and mysids) in Hungary. He was involved in the international team of the Joint Danube Survey 3 (2013) as a crustacean expert, and continues to be active in international research initiatives in the Danube region. While maintaining a strong interest in taxonomy and faunistics, his research focuses more-and-more on revealing the ecological impacts of invasive species.
Péter is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for freshwater peracarids.
During the last 15 years he has been dealing with inventories of non-native plant species in Mediterranean countries, with special concern to islands. He is one of the promoters of the series of conferences EMAPi (Ecology and Management of Alien Plant invasions) and has collaborated with the EPPO, the EEA and the DG ENV of European Commission on national lists, risk assessment, ecology and management of plant invasions.
Giuseppe is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for terrestrial plants.
She is author of more than 85 papers in impact factor journals, 20 book chapters and 14 popular science papers. She has been or is supervisor of 7 PhD students on ecology, demography and population structure of invasive species. She acts as reviewer of more than 30 journals included in JCR and more than 10 PhD juries. She has been or participated in more than 20 research projects, including an European COST action on invasive parakeets across Europe.
Margarita is responsible for the revision of the information on avian species of the EASIN Catalogue and provides updates for new alien species.
His main area of expertise is the taxonomy of polychaetes (Annelida: Polychaeta), called as marine bristle worms. His research interests also include marine alien species, benthic species assemblages, biotic indices, pollution and fouling. He has been working as a Professor in the Department of Hydrobiology of Ege University (Turkey) and has coordinated many national and international projects regarding marine biodiversity, pollution monitoring and benthic species assemblages. He is (co)author of > 120 publications (80 in peer-reviewed international journals).
Melih Ertan is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the marine Annelida
His Ph.D. focused on a multidisciplinary approach to the study of marine biodiversity (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn - Italy), to which he has always been attracted.
Fabio has worked in different projects related to Eastern Atlantic/Mediterranean marine biota, he is mostly interested in Mollusca, particularly in cataloging their biodiversity and updating their taxonomy, nomenclature and distribution. He is author of >35 peer-reviewed publications (24 ISI) (April 2014).
Fabio has worked as a trainee at the Water Resources Unit of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (JRC), where he was a member of the scientific team of EASIN. His role was to provide scientific support to the developing of EASIN, especially on the quality assurance of the EASIN Catalogue of alien species.
She is responsible for the Nematology Laboratory of the Emilia-Romagna Plant Protection Service, regional level of Italian National Plant Protection Organization. She is expert in surveys on quarantine nematodes in agriculture and forestry, nematode control by means of biofumigation, nematicidal plants, natural and chemical substances, insect biocontrol by entomopathogenic nematodes, project planning and development, organization and coordination of experimental trials, working group coordination. She has participated in many related projects and has collaborated with European Institutions. For 6 years she was a contractor professor at University of Bologna teaching Agricultural Nematology in the Courses for the Master Degree in Medicine of Plants; last year she taught the same subject in the International Course for the Postgraduate Specialization in "Integrated Pest management of Mediterranean Fruit Trees" at CIHEAM - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies of Bari (Italy). She participated to two European COST Actions on entomopathogenic nematodes, and since 2007 she has been appointed by the Italian NPPO as Italian member of the EPPO Panel of Diagnostics in Nematology. Currently she is a member of the Management Committee of Italian Society of Nematology.
Giovanna was responsible for the revision of the information on nematode species of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for nematode species.
She is a member of the Working Group on Invasive Alien Species (WGIAS) of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Environment (DG Environment).
Aldona is a member of the EASIN Editorial Board assigned for the aquatic Arthropods.
Her research interests concern topics in biodiversity and macroecology; specifically, the distribution of introduced and invasive species, but also large-scale patterns in the abundance and distribution of animals more generally. Her recent work has been on the spatial ecology of invasions, particularly focusing on patterns of richness, range size and spread.
She designed and created the Global Avian Invasions Atlas (GAVIA) database (www.nature.com/articles/sdata201741), a novel, spatially referenced, global data set on the distributions of alien birds. She has since used GAVIA to examine the spatial and temporal dynamics of alien bird distributions, and has published 16 peer-reviewed articles on the topic, including in the journals Nature, PLoS Biology and PNAS.
Ellie was responsible for the revision of the information on alien bird species of the EASIN Catalogue, and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for birds.
He currently works as a marine ecologist for eCOAST, mainly involved in monitoring projects to assess the impact of human activities on the marine environment. Furthermore, he is an associate researcher of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden. Marco Faasse is particularly interested in introductions of alien species, and published about many new arrivals to Europe and transfers to different areas. As a consequence of his ecological work, he acquired a broad knowledge of different marine invertebrate groups, with afocus on Bryozoa and Amphipoda.
Marco is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the marine Bryozoa (Animalia).
From 2014 to 2024, he was Deputy Director of ISYEB (Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité – Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity), a joint research unit bringing together more than 100 researchers from the MNHN, Sorbonne Université, the CNRS, the Université des Antilles and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Since 2013, he has also been involved in research on invasive alien species in Europe and worldwide, with a particular focus on terrestrial Platyhelminthes, and is a member of the European Alien Species editorial board.
She is an ecologist with over 25 years of experience in aquatic ecology, and her main research activity is focused on how biological invasions and climate change are modifying plankton diversity and pelagic foodweb functioning. Lyudmila has contributed to several EU projects as an expert in bioinvasions and trend analysis of ecological indicators of global changes in the European aquatic ecosystems (marine and freshwater).
Lyudmila has revised the EASIN list of marine phyto - and zooplankton species and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for marine zooplankton species.
He is an expert in the taxonomy, chorology, and floristics of the Central European flora, as well as in the vegetation ecology of forest communities, forest management, and nature conservation. He has participated in several national and European projects on alien plant species and the Red Lists of threatened vascular plants. He is the editor of the New Field Flora of Hungary, the coordinator of the Hungarian vascular plant mapping project, and a collaborator of the Committee for Mapping the Flora of Europe for Hungary. He is the author of approximately 250 publications. See: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gergely-Kiraly?ev=hdr_xprf
Gergely is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the freshwater Tracheophyta.
He is primarily specialised in taxonomy and ecology of polychaete worms, and discussed his master thesis on cryptic speciation in the polychaete Syllis gracilis and his doctorate dissertation on phylogeny and diversity of the family Paraonidae. His research also deals with marine bioinvasions, focusing chiefly on human-impacted environments, such as ports, artificial canals and shipwrecks.
Joachin is a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for marine Annelida.
His research focusses on the species richness, faunal structure and evolutionary biogeography of modern and fossil foraminifera, a group of marine protists that figure prominently in ecological studies of marine communities around the world. This interest involves the study of the ecology, the global carbonate production, the molecular genetic heredity and biology of fossil and living species. His current research includes the analyses of global biogeographic patterns and faunal exchange mechanisms and studies on the biogeography, range expansion and hotspots of diversity of foraminifera in tropical oceans in time and space. He has developed species distribution models to project future species distributions conveyed by the ongoing warming of the planet and is interested in the impact of invasive species along the range expansion front. Martin Langer has published more than 70 papers, monographs and books, and is Editor for the ”Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie”.
Martin is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the marine Foraminifera (Chromista).
Her work includes faunistic surveys, description of new species to science and first records to the Mediterranean coast of Israel using both molecular and morphological tools, and constructing an up-to-date museum collection. In addition, she is involved in monitoring the spread of non-indigenous species in the Mediterranean Sea and the freshwater system of Israel.
Ya’arit is a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the marine Arthropoda.
His Ph.D. focused on ecological studies of marine bioinvasions at the University of Salento where he also specialized in the taxonomy of polychaetes.
He currently works as a marine biologist for the Regional Environmental Agency of Emilia-Romagna where he is mainly involved as benthologist in monitoring activities. Marco is particularly interested in monitoring introductions of alien species in the field of the implementation of the Marine Strategy Directive. Moreover, Marco is particularly interested in the taxonomy of polychaetes, for which he described several species from the Italian coasts. As a consequence of his experience as benthologist, he acquired a broad knowledge of different marine invertebrate groups.
Marco is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the marine Annelida
His research interests concern freshwater crustaceans, such as crayfishes, shrimps and crabs, as well as their epibionts. He is the initiator of the Łowca Obcych (Alien Hunter) project, the largest citizen-science initiative dedicated to invasive alien species in Poland. For his educational and pro-social activities, Rafal was awarded by the Polish Ministry of Climate and Environment with the title of Climate Man of the Year in 2021.
Rafal is a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for freshwater crayfish.
She has been working on biological invasions since 2002, particularly on invasive plants, with a focus on impacts, restoration and biological control, from a strongly applied perspective, collaborating with national and international researchers.
She is also actively involved in advising different stakeholders on the management of invasive plants and in promoting public awareness and science communication on this environmental challenge. Elizabete is one of the coordinators of the citizen science platform INVASORAS.PT, a Portuguese initiative that disseminates information about invasive plants and promotes citizen participation in their mapping and monitoring, as well as in other citizen science activities.
At the international level, she has collaborated with the Directorate-General for Environment of the European Commission, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO), and the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN), among others.
Elizabete is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for terrestrial plants.
She mainly works on marine invertebrates from man-modified habitats (ports, marinas, lagoons) and has gained a vast experience on nonindigenous species occurring in the fouling communities of the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Macaronesia and North-Eastern Atlantic, with special focus on peracarid crustaceans. She is Associate Editor of three International Journals and has served as a reviewer for over 40 international journals, as well as for national and international funding programs. She is member of several scientific boards, including the Working Group on Invasive Alien Species (WGIAS) of the European Commission's Directorate General for Environment (DG Environment); the “Allochtonous species group” of the Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM), where she has been coordinator of the Horizon Scanning Exercise on marine alien species for Italy. Agnese Marchini has authored or co-authored 60 peer-reviewed articles and four book chapters; her researches have been presented at 70 scientific conferences.
Her research is covered by several national and international newspapers and she also writes educational articles for Italian magazines and blogs.
Agnese is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the marine Arthropoda
She founded in 1999 the “Allochthonous Species Group” of the Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM), continuously holding the position of coordinator. This network is instrumental in maintaining and promoting the highly diverse and specialized competences from the Italian scattered, yet vivacious, organizational landscape. Since 2000, on behalf of SIBM, she has participated in the Working Group on Introduction and Transfer of Marine Organisms of ICES, presenting each year the "National Report" for Italy.
She has been collaborating with the main international organizations dealing with the issue of “Alien Species” both in the Mediterranean (Mediterranean Science Commission - CIESM, Mediterranean Action Plan – UNEP RAC/SPA) and in a wider context (ICES – WGITMO Working Group on Introduction and Transfer of Marine Organisms, WGBOSV Working Group on Ballast and Other Ship Vectors, IUCN – International Union for Nature Conservation; ERNAIS - European Research Network on Aquatic Invasive Species, MARBEF – Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning).
She authored or co-authored more than 240 papers in national and international journals.
Anna is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for marine Bryozoa.
He has been conducting his studies of benthic, littoral and plankton communities primarily in inland waters and estuaries. For the last 20 years he has been working in the area of biological invasions, and had participated in several initiatives in expert networking in invasive species-related research, information exchange and management, including EU-funded projects in this area (ALARM, DAISIE, EnviroGRIDS). He is also the Finland-based publisher (Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre – REABIC), and managing editor of three thematic international open access scientific journals on biological invasions. These journals, namely AquaticInvasions, BioInvasions Records and Management of Biological Invasions, have been established by the European scientists as the targeted cost-effective tools to support open information systems on invasive species with primary geo-referenced species record data and with other relevant information needed for management of these species.
Vadim has collaborated with EASIN from the very start of this initiative and, specifically, he was co-responsible for the revision of the freshwater species of the EASIN Catalogue. Vadim Panov is an assigned EASIN Editorial Board member for freshwater zooplankton taxa.
He acted/acts as Scientific Coordinator or WP leader of several national and international (EU-funded) research projects on the biology, ecology, taxonomy and systematics of cnidarians and more generally on evolutionary developmental biology of basal metazoans. Current interests deal with jellyfish outbreaks and marine bioinvasions, jellyfish ecology, taxonomy and systematics, and the molecular mechanisms of life cycle reversal and cell transdifferentation by NGS approaches. Co-Founder and Past-President of the International Hydrozoan Society, member of the Board of the Italian Union of Zoologists, member of the Steering Committee of the new EuroMarine Consortium (www.euromarineconsortium.eu). He acted as Guest Editor of symposium volumes in Biological Invasions, Marine Ecology, Scientia Marina.
Stefano is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the marine Cnidaria.
He is lecturer at the University of Vienna. He has worked on an inventory of the endemic species of Austria, contributed to DAISIE and NOBANIS, to the development of a risk assessment and early warning tool for invasive alien species in Germany and Austria (GABLIS), and to the development of alien species indicators (SEBI). He further contributes to the European Topic Centre on Biodiversity, the national Article 17 Habitat Directive report, the national 5th CBD report and the new Austrian Biodiversity Strategy 2020. He has written more than 170 publications, see http://homepage.univie.ac.at/wolfgang.rabitsch/refs.html
Wolfgang has contributed to the revision of the information on arthropod species of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for arthropod species.
During the last 10 years, his research activity turned towards biological invasions and the effect of global warming on the populations of terrestrial invertebrates. He has participated in most of the recent EU-funded projects dealing with biological invasions such as ALARM, DAISIE, PRATIQUE, ISEFOR, and REPHRAME. He especially coordinated the inventory of alien terrestrial invertebrates realized in DAISIE. Then, he was the main editor of the book ‘Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe’, published in 2010, which provided the first comprehensive review of the fauna of alien terrestrial arthropods having colonized the European continent and its associated islands. The book summarizes the present knowledge of the arthropod invasion process from temporal trends and biogeographic patterns to pathways and vectors, invaded habitats, and ecological and economic impacts.
Alain was responsible for the revision of the information on terrestrial arthropod species of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for terrestrial arthropod species.
Riccardo has been working with several public institutions and private companies based in Italy, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK and New Zealand, along with major international organisations i.e. the European Commission, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and other related bodies (EEA, CINEA, EASME, REA), the Council of Europe, IUCN International, etc. At the national level worked with the Ministry of the Environment in both Italy and Denmark. In Italy, other clients included the Institute for Environmental Research and Protection (ISPRA), the Ministry of Agriculture, the University of Rome, and the Rome zoo (Bioparco). Riccardo has published several papers focusing on invasive alien species and other biological conservation issues, plus monographs and reports, and about 100 articles on popular magazines. Environmental communication is another core expertise of Riccardo, who besides the long journalistic experience and the communication activities carried out (e.g. information campaigns for the Rome zoo), coordinated an international team of experts acting on behalf of the EC - DG ENV for the selection LIFE+ Information and Communication projects . Furthermore, since 2009 he is programme officer of the IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
The key role of Riccardo in relation to the development of the EASIN Catalogue was the revision of the information on mammals, amphibians and reptiles, and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for mammals, amphibians and reptiles.
Dr. Shenkar specialty is ascidian (Phylum: Chordata, Class: Ascidiacea) ecology and taxonomy. The majority of her field work is conducted in the Mediterranean and Red Sea, and involves the early detection and monitoring of invasive species.
Noa is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for the class Ascidiacea.
He spent the last 20 years studying the changes of the Romanian freshwater habitats and molluscs' communities, in relation to human pressure. He is (co-) author of more than 80 scientific, didactical and popularisation papers, among them 9 books and 46 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He was involved in more than 20 scientific and development grants and projects, aiming the conservation state monitoring of invertebrate species of community interest, ecological and human impact assessments of several freshwater ecological systems, establishing management plans for different areas of conservation in Romania, ecological data processing and others. He is founding member of two regional non-governmental organizations for ecological development, animal protection and a shelter for abandoned animals. He was also involved in many projects of ecological education, mountain ecology and training camps for youth.
Ioan is member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for freshwater Mollusca.
She has been working with amphibians for about 10 years and followed them around the globe - Europe, South-America and Southern Asia. Her research revolves around understanding the biological and ecological processes shaping life history and population resilience to various environmental stressors (e.g. climate change, habitat loss, and invasive species).
Florina is a Member of the EASIN Editorial Board assigned to Amphibia.
Since a Master student, she deals with the biological invasions problem, particularly in freshwater ecosystems, through different perspectives, from behavioural ecology to management aspects.
Elena participated to several national and European projects (such as DAISIE, IMPASSE) on alien species, and she recently started to work on the predictive aspects of this problem, especially in relation to the climate change. Her main fields of research range from biological invasions to social behaviour in invertebrates, leading her to travel around Europe, USA and Africa, and to establish many fruitful collaborations.
Currently, she has a post-doc position at the University of Florence and is involved in the COST Action TD1209 (Alien Challenge).
Elena was co-responsible for the revision of the freshwater fauna species of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for freshwater fauna species.
His research focuses on marine alien species, including biology, ecology, taxonomy and systematics, with emphasis on marine plants (seaweeds and seagrasses); pollution impacts and coastal management are also included among his fields of interest.
He has a broad experience in marine biodiversity surveys, carried out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in laboratory analyses. He has participated in >25 international and national research projects and is (co)author of >30 publications in peer-review international journals.
Kostas is a member of the scientific team of EASIN since February 2015.
He is currently employed at the DIBAF-University of Tuscia in Italy where he coordinates the Laboratory of Mycology and Forest Pathology. His research interest focuses on alien invasive fungal and oomycetes and the impact they have on biodiversity, ecosystems functionality and sustainability. He belongs to several EU and Global scientists networks within IUFRO and COST initiatives and has participate to a number of EU research project dealing with Invasive organisms (PATHOAK, FORTHREATS, BACCARA, ISEFOR). He is author of more than 140 publications and chapters in books.
Andrea was responsible for the revision of the information on fungi of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for fungi species.
His research effort is mainly aimed at understanding variation in life history traits in freshwater and coastal fish species. What drives this diversity? In particular he has focused his research on traits such as growth, age at maturation, fecundity and egg size, since these traits are very important for fitness. To investigate this he utilizes a wide range of approaches and methods, including classical ecological methods, genetic and genomic methods, mathematical modeling and statistical analyses. His current research included the contemporary evolution of freshwater species such as grayling, stickleback and brown trout when challenged by various selective pressures. He also investigates studies environmental effects on population dynamics of a wide range of species. Asbjørn Vøllestad has published >150 papers in international journals, and supervised more than 40 MSc and 10 PhD students. He is editor of the journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish, and regularly gives scientific advice to Norwegian management authorities.
Asbjørn Vøllestad is assigned to freshwater fishes of EASIN.
Her main area of research since 1997 has been the study of marine alien species. She is the coordinator of the Hellenic network on Aquatic Invasive Species (ELNAIS) (http://services.ath.hcmr.gr), consultant to UNEP MAP RAC/SPA for the development of MAMIAS (a Mediterranean alien species database) and National expert in ESENIAS and COST 1209 (Aliens Challenge). Argyro is responsible for marine alien species in EEA and has developed a HCMR/EEA Pan-European database. She was also a member of the SEBI2010 expert group on “trends in invasive alien species".
Argyro was responsible for the revision of the information on marine species of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for marine molluscs and fishes.
His research interests concern the flora and vegetation of Greece. He has participated in research projects related to the alien flora of Greece and Europe. He has also been involved in the monitoring of habitat types and protected plant species in several Natura 2000 Sites of Greece.
Andreas was responsible for the revision of the information on terrestrial plant species of the EASIN Catalogue and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for terrestrial plants.