Dr. Paraskevi (Vivi) Drakopoulou, Environmental Scientist. She has graduated from the University of the Aegean, Department of the Environment in 1993. She has received MSc degree in Marine Biology from the University of Crete in 1996. Her PhD thesis is in the field of "Satellite Derived Bathymetry and Habitat Mapping" (Harokopio University of Athens, Geography Department).  

Since 1996 she is employed as a Research Scientist in the Institute of Oceanography. She is responsible of the Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Unit of the IO.  Her research activities are focused on application of modern expertise in the framework of GIS modeling and Remote Sensing analysis, in order to study the marine and coastal environment. In more details, her expertise includes spatial analysis, statistics and visualization of land and marine data, geodatabase design and development for coastal zone management, as well as for the implementation of EU directives (HD, WFD, MSFD), marine spatial planning, seascape visualization, cartography and seafloor mapping (bathymetric and habitat maps), marine protected areas, shoreline changes monitoring and analysis, environmental hazard, vulnerability and risk GIS. 

During her professional scientific experience,she has participated in more than 40 research projects most of which have been funded by the EU. Some recent projects are4S – Satellite Seafloor Survey Suite (as HCMR-IO Principal Investigator-PI), BathySent –An Innovative Method to Retrieve Global Coastal Bathymetry from Sentinel-2 (as HCMR-IO PI), EMODNET (Bathymetry (HCMR-IO PI), EUSeaMap, Geology, CheckPoints), WFD monitoring, MSFD Monitoring, COCONET, ADRIPLAN, IRIS-SES, ActionMed, MEDCIS etc.She is the co-author of 7 book chapters and 21 peer-reviewed articles, as well as more than 100 publications/contributions to national and international conferences and workshops. Since 2019 she also collaborates with the Department of Maritime Studies of the University of Piraeus, in the framework of the MSc Sustainable Blue Economy, teaching the course "Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems".