Christos Mammides

Christos Mammides is a member of EILST environment team and currently a Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London. He has received his Bachelor's degree from San Diego State University, California where he studied biology with emphasis in ecology. After graduation he worked for a short-term with BirdLife Cyprus in a project that aimed at recording illegal bird trapping sites in the island and estimating the number of birds captured. In 2006 he completed his master's degree on Conservation Biology at Columbia University, New York. For his master's thesis he studied the effects of human disturbance and food supply on the population densities on three primate species in Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya. A publication from this work will appear soon in the Journal of African Ecology.

Before starting his Ph.D. at Imperial College in 2007 he worked for a year in Cyprus as an environmental consultant for Nicolaides and Associates Ltd. His duties included preparation of environmental impact assessments for a number of projects and he was also involved with the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC). More specifically he was involved with the implementation of Article 8 which deals with the development of a monitoring network for the quality of all water bodies in Cyprus and Article 14 which deals with the involvement of the public in the process for developing the River Basin Management Plan. Christos was also part of the team responsible for the development of the management plan for the Natura 2000 area "Polis-Yialia".

During his studies he has taken several courses on conservation biology, statistical analysis and use of computer software (such R, SPSS and Ecolab) for conservation purposes. He speaks English and Greek. Christos is a member of the Ecological Society of America, the British Ecological Society, the Society for Conservation Biology and a member of the international review panel for the Journal of African Ecology.