Prof. Anastasios Eleftheriou is Currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Crete, Greece, where he also founded and directed the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC) for ten years (now also Researcher Emeritus at HCMR, Crete). His early years as a researcher were spent in Scotland, at the Marine Laboratory (now Marine Science Scotland) in Aberdeen, before returning to his native Greece in 1985, as Professor in the Dept. of Biology, University of Crete, teaching marine biology and zoology for almost twenty years.
Prof. Eleftheriou’s scientific interests include many aspects of marine environmental health: the structure and function of marine ecosystems; stability and production of marine ecosystems; marine biodiversity; ecological and biological aspects of pollution impacts; coastal zone management; interactions of aquaculture and the environment. His research work, though mainly in the eastern Mediterranean, the coasts of Scotland and the North Sea, has also taken him to India, China and the Galapagos Islands.
He has wide experience of transnational EU programmes as coordinator and participant, from early MAST work on hydrothermal vents in the eastern Mediterranean, MARAQUA’s review of European regulatory and institutional monitoring, ASEM and the AQUACHALLENGE Workshop (Beijing, 2002), MARBEF. His EU experience includes several special posts: Training, Mobility&Research (TMR) Review panel; Vice Chairman, Marie Curie Evaluation Panel; Member of 5-year INCO Assessment Panel; Expert Adviser, 5th FP (Water & Marine Ecosystems); Evaluator (EUR-OCEANS NoE); serving on Advisory Boards (FP6 -IASON, SESAME, FP7 – MarineTT and ODEMM).
