Dr. Fotakis Dimitrios
Principal Researcher
Hellenic agricultural organization - "DEMETER"Forest Research Institute
570 06 Vasilika, Thessaloniki
Tel: 2310 461 172 & 3, 2310 461 411, 2310 461 637 (ext.237)
Fax: 2310 461 341e-mail:
Education
-
2009. Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, December 2009. DISSERTATION: Spatial planning for decision making. Integrated land use and water resources management with evolutionary methods.
-
2003. M.Sc. in Geoinformatics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering. DISSERTATION: Coupling of hydrological model with a GIS.
-
2000. Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, Department of Forest and Water Engineering.
Academic Honors and Awards
-
2013. Funded Research, AUTH Research Committee. Project: Watershed land use optimization for flood risk minimization through Genetic Algorithm development.
-
2012. Postdoctoral Excellence Award, AUTH Research Committee. Project: Multi-objective forest management using cellular automata.
-
2005-2009. Graduate Scholar, Greek State Scholarships Foundation. (PhD)
-
2001-2003. Graduate Scholar, Greek State Scholarships Foundation. (MSc)
Field of work
-
Forest Resources Spatial Planning
Research Interests
-
Operational Research
-
Forest ecosystem management tools
-
Decision optimization tools
-
Multi-objective forest management
-
Forest ecosystems as complex adaptive systems
-
Heuristic algorithms
-
Water resources management
-
Eco-informatics
-
Responsible Research and Innovation
publications
other