Paraskevi Alizoti

Paraskevi (Evi) ALIZOTI, Associate Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Thessaloniki, Greece (Hellas) Dr. Paraskevi (Evi) Alizoti obtained her B.Sc. in Forestry, the M.Sc. in Plant Genetics and Breeding and her Ph.D. in Quantitative Genetics and Tree Breeding from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. In the course of her studies she has been awarded several times scholarships for exceptional performance and for conducting her M.Sc. research. She was also a one year Post-Doc fellow in the Faculty of Forestry of North Carolina State University, USA. She began her professional career as a researcher on quantitative genetics and tree breeding at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She then became a Lecturer, an Assistant Professor and since 2019 an Associate Professor at the School of Forestry and Natural Environment – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is instructing sixteen undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the fields of forest genetics, tree improvement, conservation of genetic resources, quantitative genetics, molecular breeding and clonal forestry/biomass production. She is currently the Head of the Forest Production, Forest Protection and Natural Environment Department (2020-2021), she is an Administrative Council member, and the ERASMUS+ Coordinator at the School of Forestry and Natural Environment of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is Coordinating the IUFRO Working Unit 2.02.13 ‘Breeding and Genetic Resources of Mediterranean Conifers’ and she is co-leading the IUFRO Task Force ‘Strengthening Mediterranean Nursery Systems for Forest Reproductive Material Procurement to Adapt to the Effects of Climate Change’. She has been nominated as National Focal Point of Greece in the EUFORGEN and EUFGIS Programs. She participated in numerous competitive national and European research projects, as well as EU COST Actions, via active participation and via leading or co-leading working groups. She is acting as reviewer in numerous peer review scientific journals and she is Task Editor for the ‘Forests’ scientific journal. She is a member of numerous scientific societies and she served as member of their boards for several terms. Her scientific expertise lies mainly on forest genetics, tree breeding and selection strategies, ecological genetics, conservation of forest genetic resources and genetic monitoring, plasticity-adaptation and evolution of natural populations, assisted migration, reproductive fertility traits and climate change, molecular breeding, breeding for wood chemicals (stilbenes), clonal forestry and biomass production, use of new satellite and phenotype technologies to assess population vulnerability. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications, book chapters and invited papers.