Dr. Maria Petridou

Maria gained her PhD from our Lab (2023) concerning wolf ecology and human-large carnivore conflict mitigation 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 has been a postdoc fellow in the Bavarian Forest National Park in Germany, continuing her research on wolves. She currently teaches the course “Biology of large terrestrial mammals” at BAT. In recent years she has worked on old-growth woods and chamois conservation projects.  BLC projects: COEXIST, ROADLESS, AOOS, NATLAND, LIVEMOUNT, INTEGRADIV, CHAMOIS, CHAMOIS II (BCL team coordinator).