Dr. Maria Petridou

Maria gained her PhD from our Lab (2023) on the topic of την οικολογία του λύκου και και μετριασμό των συγκρούσεων ανθρώπου-μεγάλων σαρκοφάγων under a State Scholarship Foundation grant (IKY). She is an agronomist and a freelancer expert on large carnivores, having worked on several conservation and monitoring projects. She combines social surveys with fieldwork (sign transects, camera trapping, GPS telemetry), lab (diet analysis), and data analysis. She currently works as a postdoc fellow in the Bavarian Forest National Park in Germany, continuing her research on wolves. BLC projects: COEXIST, ROADLESS, AOOS, NATLAND.