Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Environment of the University of the Aegean

Dr Maria Aloupi obtained her first degree in 1990 at the Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and her Ph.D. in 1999 at the Department of Environment, University of the Aegean. She has been trained in heavy metal analysis in environmental samples in the Marine Environmental Laboratory, Monaco, supported by a fellowship by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She has worked on the assessment of metal pollution and on heavy metal geochemistry in the marine, freshwater, land and atmospheric environment. She has also worked on the interactions between metals and organisms. Recently, her research interests have included phytoremediation of soil and wastewater.

Since 1992 she has participated in 21 research projects financed by Greek or International bodies. She has 48 communications in International Conferences and 37 publications in scientific journals in the Science Citation Index. Since 2000 she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in ‘Marine Chemistry’, ‘Chemical Oceanography’, ‘Marine Environmental Geochemistry, ‘Aquatic Pollution’, ‘Environmental Chemistry', at the Departments of Marine Science and of Environment, University of the Aegean. She is currently a laboratory teaching stuff at the Department of the Environment, University of the Aegean and she is teaching mainly ‘Chemistry’ and ‘Aquatic Chemistry’ for undergraduate students.