Hello there! My name is Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos and I am an integrative biologist, focusing on how various biological systems respond to environmental changes.
My research spans levels of biological organization (from molecules to ecosystems), taxonomic groups (from microbes to birds and mammals), timescales (from seconds to millions of years), and approaches (e.g., ecoinformatics, phylogenetic comparative methods, genomics, fieldwork, experiments).
I am currently a Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, kindly funded by the German Research Foundation. Here, I work with Noa Pinter-Wollman to investigate how the social behavior of ants responds to changes in temperature.
Prior to this, I was an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at Michael Hiller's group, working on the evolution of torpor across mammals and birds. My PhD was on the thermal adaptation of microbes (mainly), under the supervision of Samraat Pawar, Tim Barraclough, and Colin Prentice.
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My research spans levels of biological organization (from molecules to ecosystems), taxonomic groups (from microbes to birds and mammals), timescales (from seconds to millions of years), and approaches (e.g., ecoinformatics, phylogenetic comparative methods, genomics, fieldwork, experiments).
I am currently a Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, kindly funded by the German Research Foundation. Here, I work with Noa Pinter-Wollman to investigate how the social behavior of ants responds to changes in temperature.
Prior to this, I was an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at Michael Hiller's group, working on the evolution of torpor across mammals and birds. My PhD was on the thermal adaptation of microbes (mainly), under the supervision of Samraat Pawar, Tim Barraclough, and Colin Prentice.
For more information, click on the tabs at the top of this page.
Word cloud based on the abstracts of my papers.
A gorgeous panoramic photo of Volos, Greece, my hometown.
By Tsints (https://bit.ly/2iOtksL), CC BY-SA 3.0.
By Tsints (https://bit.ly/2iOtksL), CC BY-SA 3.0.