1. Joseph Makris - Marine Biologist (M.Sc.)
Curriculum vitae
Personal data
Name: Joseph (Iosif)
Surname: Makris
Year/place of birth: 30 September 1980, Rhodes (Greece)
Nationality: Greek/French
Telephone: +306989407174 (mobile) +302241022945 (home number)
E-mail address: iosifmakris416@hotmail.com
Education and Training
2002 – 2006, BSc - Zoology with marine zoology University of Wales, Department of
biological sciences, Bangor, UK. Title of thesis: Why fish are useful in order to study
evolutionary change.
2007 – 2010, MSc - Biological Oceanography, IFM – GEOMAR Leibniz – Institut
fur Meereswissenschaften an der Universitat Kiel & University of Southern Denmark,
Institute of Biology, Odense. Title of master research thesis: Cod growth and climate
variation - A 10 year cod growth chronology from the Faroese plateau cod stock.
2013 –2014 PhD One year study at the University of Aberdeen UK, literature review
in socio economics, ecology and Marine Protected Areas (PhD study terminated due
to lack of funds).
Complementary education – summer school
HMAP International Summer School 2009. When humanities meet ecology: Historic
changes in Mediterranean and Black Sea marine biodiversity and ecosystems since
Roman period until nowadays. Languages, methodologies and perspectives. Trieste,
Italy, 31 August – 4 September 2009.
5th European phycological Congress, Rhodes, Greece, 4 – 11 September 2011
Researcher at COST Action TD1209: ALIEN Challenge Training School Marine

2. Survey – Hydrobiological station of Rhodes – Hellenic Centre for Marine Research.
Rhodes, Greece 9 – 11 April 2014.
Work experience
Worked at the Hydrobiological station of Rhodes – Hellenic Centre for Marine
Research – aquarium for research purposes on marine fisheries surveys (2014)
Scientific article writer for scientific and marine environmental issues in press, web
sites and newspapers.
Secondary level educational sector of Greece – Ministry of education: Lecturer –
assistant in environmental educational program.
Experience working with diving centers, management, sales and in-water work.
I have significantly contributed to marine environmental education programs
organized from the ministry/department of education in Greece. I have also personally
organized environmental events/lectures in high schools concerning marine sciences
and marine biology/ecology/conservation in general. Substantial academic as also
diving industry experience. I have worked as a PADI dive instructor. I have
experience in diving – ecotourism and tourism as also in marine ecology. in general is
of paramount importance for the understating of such business sector. My major
scientific interests are in Marine Protected Areas, fisheries oceanography, marine
ecology and socio-economics, tourism and environmental policy- conservation.
Publications in newspapers / press and websites
Inventory of alien and cryptogenic species of the Dodecanese (Aegean Sea, Greece):
collaboration through COST action training school Corsini-Foka et.al. Management
of Biological Invasions (2015) Volume 6
North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and associated effects on marine organisms, fish
stocks, examples and concerns. E Stefos and M.Hatzinikolas – School library of
Ialisos high school, 66 91 – 104