Awards – HydroMediT 2024

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awarding Ceremony of academic & Professional Excellence

The organisers will honour for their excellence and their invaluable contribution in the sectors covered by our Congress, an Academic, a Professional, and a Company.

PROFESSOR EMERITUS MICHAEL KARYDIS

MICHAEL KARYDIS studied Natural Sciences in the University of Athens (B.Sc. 1973). He has been a Ph.D. student in the Hydrobiology Laboratory of the Nuclear Research Center “Democritus” specializing in the use of tracing techniques, focusing at the problem of eutrophication. His studies continued in the Department of Marine Science of the University College of North Wales, U.K. where he was awarded his Ph.D. Degree (1978). He has worked as a research fellow in the NRC Democritus during 1980-1982. His academic carrier was continued in the Hydrobiological Station in Rhodes, as Director (1983-1986). Being one of the founding members of the University of the Aegean, he was appointed Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies. In 1998 M. Karydis was commissioned by the Senate of the University to organize the Department of Marine Sciences, being the head of the Dept. (from its beginning in 1999) for a decade. He retired in 2017, being since then Professor Emeritus. His research interests apart from marine eutrophication include phytoplankton ecology and physiology, aquatic toxicology, coastal management and over the last ten years Marine Spatial Planning. In addition to his work published in international journals, M. Karydis has written books relevant to the marine environment. He has also been a member of the National Council of Research and Technology. Within the framework of ERASMUS he has lectured in European Universities, in UK, Germany, Poland and Finland. He spends his leisure sailing, painting and hiking.

IOANNA ARGYROU, BIOLOGIST/ICHTHYOLOGIST, BSC, MSC

BSc in Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
MSc “Environment and Development”, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Consultant of Operational Development
Founder and CEO of the NAYS Company

Ioanna Argyrou, Biologist / Ichthyologist, BSc Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, MSc in “Environment and Development”, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She is consultant and Technical Advisor in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Environment and Renewable Energy Sources (RES). She has over 30 years of experience in conducting and implementing studies, management and evaluation of investments. She has participated as a special scientist in many EU and National research projects. She has many scientific publications and presentations in national and international conferences. She is member of the Independent Experts Database for European Research & Innovation. She is co-founder of the “Hellenic Technology Platform for Aquaculture”; and participant & administrator of the patent entitled “ICHTHIOKITIDA”, aiming at the protection and growth of the fish population.

She has been the Founder & CEO of NAYS Company for the last 26 years. NAYS specializes in Studies and Consulting Services in the fields of Sustainable Fisheries & Aquaculture, Environmental & Social Monitoring, Climate Change, Environmental Policy and Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA). NAYS engages in Marine Spatial Planning & Blue Growth, Circular Economy, Green Development, while it has also been providing relevant services in Alternative Tourism, Marketing, Standardization and Processing of agricultural products.

professional Small-Scale Fisheries Association ‘MAKAR’

and its president fisherman panayiotis nanidis

PANAYIOTIS NANIDIS aged 68 yrs, has been born and lives in the traditional fish village Skala Kallonis in the Kalloni gulf of the island of Lesvos. He has been a professional artisanal fisherman from 1965, working mostly in the Kalloni gulf. He has been the President of the local Fishermen Association during the decade 1990-2000. During the period 2013-2019 he has been the President of the Small-Scale Fisheries Association of the island of Lesvos. From 2019 today he has been the President of the Small-Scale Fisheries Association ‘MAKAR’ of the Kalloni gulf. He is actively supporting all the years of his professional life the rational management of the marine biological resources (fishes, invertebrates) in the Kalloni gulf and in general of the island of Lesvos, and many times in his public speech he talks about the need for protection of the marine biota of his beloved Kalloni gulf.