Katerina Kouli
Researcher
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Researcher Profile
Katerina Kouli (PhD 2002) is Professor of Paleontology-Paleobotany-Geoarcheology at the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a palynologist with expertise on the study of pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from terrestrial and marine deposits of the Mediterranean Region. Her research focuses on palaeovegetation evolution, terrestrial palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, and vegetation responses to Quaternary climate cycles. A major part of her work addresses human–environment interactions and past socio-environmental changes. She investigates terrestrial ecosystem responses to global climate change and their links with marine palaeoclimate records.
List of Relevant Publications:
(2025) Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): Environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery. Journal of Quaternary Science 40: 1269-1284. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.70007
Authors
Kouli K, Liakopoulos GC, Vasileiadi G, Lamprakis D, Malliaris A, Masci L, Masi A, Moros M, Papadaki M, Vignola C, Avramidis P, Izdebski A.
(2025) Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region (Greece) during the last two millennia. Journal of Quaternary Science 40: 459 – 480. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3645
Authors
Masci L, Liakopoulos GC, Gromig R, Kolovos E, Kouli K, Moros M, Sadori L, Sarantis A, Slavin P, Sypiański J, Vidras G, Vignola C, Wagner B, Izdebski A, Masi A.
(2022) Landscape Response to Dynamic Human Pressure in the Paliouras Lagoon, Halkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece. Quaternary 5(4):54. DOI: 10.3390/quat6020030
Authors
Masci L, Vignola C, Liakopoulos GC, Kouli K, Koukousioura O, Aidona E, Moros M, Vouvalidis K, Izdebski A, Masi A.
(2022) Mid-late Holocene vegetation history of the Argive Plain (Peloponnese, Greece) as inferred from a pollen record from ancient Lake Lerna. PLOS ONE 17(7):e0271548. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271548
Authors
Vingola C, Hättestrand M, Bonnier A, Finné M, Izdebski A, Katrantsiotis C, Kouli K, Liakopoulos G, Norström E, Papadaki M, Strandberg NA, Weiberg E, Masi A
(2022) Late Holocene paleoenvironmental and land-use changes in Western Greece based on a sediment record from Klisova lagoon. The Holocene 32:485–500. DOI: 10.1177/09596836221080754
Authors
Emmanouilidis A, Panagiotopoulos K, Kouli K, Avramidis P