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KATERINA KOULI

Katerina Kouli

Position: Faculty Member
Rank: Professor
Section of: Historical Geology and Palaeontology
Scientific Topic: Paleontology-Paleobotany-Geoarcheology

Tel: +30 2107274896
e-mail: akouli@geol.uoa.gr
Personal Website: http://scholar.uoa.gr/akouli


Research Interests

Palynology, vegetation history/terrestrial paleoenvironments, response of terrestrial ecosystems to global climate changes. Human paleoenvironment: vegetation/climate/human interrelations

Indicative Teaching Topics

Undegraguate Program

  •  Macropaleontology (Υ2205)
  • Paleobotany-climate reconstruction techniques (Ε5210)
  • Scientific writting (Seminar ΣΜ004)

Undegraguate Program (Department of Biology)

  • Paleontology (Ε510)

Postgraguate Program "Earth Sciences and the Environment"

  • Climate variability (paleoclimate) and climate change (anthropocene)
  • Quaternary Geoenvironment-Geoarcheology
  • Biosphere and geoenvironmental applications

Interinstitutional Postgraguate Program in Paleontology-Geobiology, AUTH-NKUA-Uni. Patras

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems of the Cenozoic
  • Palynology of aquatic systems
  • Palynology II: pollen analysis
  • Scientific terminology and communication in Paleontology
  • Paleoclimatic indice

Indicative Publications

Kouli K, Brinkhuis H, Dale B (2001) Spiniferites cruciformis: a fresh water dinoflagellate cyst? Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 113/4:273-286

Triantaphyllou MV, Ziveri P, Gogou A, Marino G, Lykousis V, Bouloubassi I, Emeis KC, Kouli K, Dimiza M, Rosell-Mele A, Papanikolaou M, Katsouras G, Nunez N (2009) Late Glacial-Holocene climate variability at the south-eastern margin of the Aegean Sea. Marine Geology 266:182-197

Kouli K (2012) Vegetation development and human activities in Attiki (SE Greece) during the last 5000 years. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21:267-278

Kouli K (2015) Plant landscape and land use at the Neolithic lake settlement of Dispilió (Macedonia, Northern Greece). Plant Biosystems 149:145-204

Weiberg Ε, Unkel Ι, Kouli K, Holmgren K, Avramidis P, Bonnier A, Dibble F, Finné M, Izdebski A, Katrantsiotis C, Stocker SR, Andwinge M, Baika K, Boyd M, Heymann C (2016) The socio-environmental history of the Peloponnese during the Holocene: Towards an integrated understanding of the past. Quaternary Science Reviews, 136:40-65

Wagner B, Vogel H, Francke A, Friedrich T, Donders TH, Lacey JH, Leng MJ, Regattieri E, Sadori L, Wilke T, Zanchetta G, Albrecht C, Bertini A, Combourieu-Nebout N, Cvetkoska A, Giaccio B, Grazhdani A, Hauffe T, Holtvoeth J, Joannin S, Jovanovska E, Just J, Kouli K, Kousis I, Koutsodendris A, Krastel S, Lagos M, Leicher N, Levkov Z, Lindhorst K, Masi A, Melles M, Mercuri AM, Nomade S, Nowaczyk N, Panagiotopoulos K, Peyron O, Reed JM, Sagnotti L, Sinopoli G, Stelbrink B, Sulpizio R, Timmermann A, Tofilovska S, Torri P, Wagner-Cremer F, Wonik T, Zhang XS (2019) Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoon during past 1.36 million years. Nature 573:256-260

Donders TH, Panagiotopoulos K, Koutsodendris A Bertini A, Mercuri AM, Masi A, Combourieu-Nebout N, Joannin S, Kouli K, Kousis I, Peyron O, Sinopoli G, Torri P, Florenzano A, Francke A., Wagner B, Sadori L (2021) 1.36 million years of Mediterranean forest refugium dynamics in response to glacial-interglacial cycle strength. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA) 118(34):e2026111118

Kafetzidou A, Kouli K, Zidianakis G, Kostopoulos DS, Zouros N (2022) The early Miocene angiosperm flora of Akrocheiras in Lesvos Petrified Forest (North Aegean, Greece)-Preliminary results. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 296:104559

Izdebski A, Guzowski P, Poniat R, Masci L, Palli J, Vignola C, Bauch M, Cocozza C, Fernandes R, Ljungqvist F, Newfield T, Seim A, Abel-Schaad D, Alba-Sánchez F, Björkman L, Brauer A, Brown A, Czerwiński S, Ejarque A, Fiłoc M, Florenzano A, Fredh E, Fyfe R, Jasiunas N, Kołaczek P, Kouli K, Kozáková R, Kupryjanowicz M, Lagerås P, Lamentowicz M, Lindbladh M, López-Sáez JA, Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger R, Marcisz K, Mazier F, Mensing S, Mercuri AM, Milecka K, Miras Y, Noryśkiewicz A, Novenko E, Obremska M, Panagiotidis S, Papadopoulou M, Pędziszewska A, Pérez-Díaz S, Piovesan G, Pluskowski A, Pokorný P, Poska A, Reitalu T, Rösch M, Sadori L, Sá Ferreira C, Sebag D, Słowiński M, Stančikaitė M, Stivrins N, Tunno I, Veski S, Wacnik A, Masi A (2022) Big Data Palaeoecology reveals significant variation in Black Death mortality in Europe. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6(3):297-306

Fatourou E, Kafetzidou A, Marret F, Panagiotopoulos K, Kouli K (2023) Late Quaternary Ponto-Caspian dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from the Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece (eastern Mediterranean Sea). Marine Micropaleontology 179:102211