Name: Dimitris S. Kostopoulos

Date and Place of birth: 22 February 1968, Aachen-Germany

Nationality: Greek

Family status: Married and father of two kids

Adress: P. Faneromenis 28, 54632 Thessaloniki, Greece; dkostop@geo.auth.gr

QUALIFICATION

2000, Degree of Post-Doctorate Research on Applied Paleontology (supported by the National Scholarship Foundation): Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -School of Geology; Post-doc title: Magnetostratigraphy and revised chronology of the late Miocene mammal localities of Samos, Greece, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2003, 92 (5): 779-794.

1996, Doctor of Philosophy, Vertebrate Paleontology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Title of thesis: The Plio-Pleistocene Artiodactyls (Mammalia) of Macedonia, Greece; Systematics, Biochronology, Biostratigraphy, Palaeoecology. PhD Thesis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1996, Sc. Annex Dept. Geology No 37, 671pp.

1990, Bachelor of Sciences, Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

1991, ERASMUS

1991-1993, Academy of Athens

1993-1996, National Scholarship Foundation

1998/99 National Scholarship Foundation –Post-doc research

2002, SYS-RESOURCE, National History Museum, London

2004, Collection Grant, American Museum of Natural History, NY

2006, Synthesis, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris

2008, Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, USA (in collaboration with R. Scott, T. Kaya, and G. Merceron)

2016, The National Geographic Society Grant 9903-16

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

2019-today Professor of Paleontology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece

2015-2019, Associate Professor of Paleontology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece

2010-2015, Assistant Professor of Paleontology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece

2002-2010, Curator, Museum of Geology & Paleontology, School of Geology, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki Greece

2000-2002, Assistant Professor (PD 407), The Aegean University-Greece, Department of Geography