Personal information

Place of birth: Thessaloniki / Greece
Nationality: Hellenic (Greek)
Address: School of GeoSciences, Crew Building, The King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JN
Telephone: +44 131 650 5103
E-mail: Georgios.Xenakis@ed.ac.uk

Professional experience

Period: July 2007 - June 2010

Institute: Forest Research, Northern Research Station, Edinburgh Scotland.
Job title: Research Scientist.

Period: July 2007 - June 2010

Institute: Forest Research, Northern Research Station, Edinburgh Scotland.
Job title: Research Scientist.

Period: October 2006 - June 2007
Institute: Forest Research, Northern Research Station, Edinburgh Scotland.
Job title: Research Assistant.

Period: 2003 - 2006
Institute: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland.
Job title: Tutor in Biometrics.

Period: June 2005 - July 2005
Institute: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland.
Job title: Laboratory and field demonstrator for the Lothian Equal Access Programme for Schools (LEAPS)

Period: September 2005 - December 2005 and September 2004 - December 2004
Institute: The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland
Job title: Field demonstrator in Ecology.

Period: April 2000 - September 2000
Institute: Forest Research Institute of Greece, Thessaloniki Greece.
Job title: Forester at practical training

Education

Period: 2002 - Present
Institute: The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland
Qualification: Ph.D. - Spatially explicit forest productivity modeling based on ecophysiological principals for Scots pine in Scotland

• Principle Supervisor: Dr. Maurizio Mencuccini, Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, University of Edinburgh, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JU, Scotland UK Fax: +44-131-6620478 Email:m.mencuccini@ed.ac.uk
• Associate Supervisor: Mr. Duncan Ray, Woodland Ecology Branch, Forest Research NRS, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9SY Scotland UK Fax: +44-131-4457335 Email: duncan.ray@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
• Project funded by the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation and the co-operation of Forest Research of the U.K. Forestry Commission

Period: 2001 - 2002
Institute: The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland
Qualification: M.Sc. Resource Management
Modules:

• Fundamentals of Management
• Forest Management
• Principles of Geographic Information Systems
• Human Resource Management
• Management of Biological Resources
• Silvicultural systems

Class of degree obtained: Pass (65%)
Dissertation title: Growth simulation modelling: an object-oriented integration of growth models
Supervisors: Mr. Ben Ditchburn, GIS Project Manager, Forest Planning - Forestry Enterprise, 231 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh EH12 7AT, UK.

Period: 1996 - 2000
Institute: Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, Drama Greece
Qualification: B.Sc. (Honors) in Forestry

Class of degree obtained: 7.8 out of 10
Dissertation: Climate classification for the prefecture of Chalkidiki
Supervisor: Dr. Martha Lazaridou, Associate professor, Department of Forestry, Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, Drama's Brach, 66100 Drama Greece. Email: mlazar@teikav.edu.gr

Scholarships - Awards - Grants

• Period: September 2001 - March 2005
• Three and a half year postgraduate scholarship by the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation.
• Period: 12 - 20 September 2004
• Short Term Scientific Mission by the European Science Foundation, COST Office for visit at the Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA)
• Period: 1997 - 1998
• Annual undergraduate scholarship by the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation.
• Period: 1996 - 1997
• Award of academic excellence by the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation.
• Period: 1996 - 1997
• Annual undergraduate scholarship by the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation.

• Process - based models integtrated with G.I.S. - Kosmos of G.I.S. web blog.

Contribution to books, conference, proceedings and workshops

• Xenakis, G., Mencuccini, M. and Ray, D. A simplified, but realistic, ecosystem spatial model of GPP, carbon sequestration and timber yield for Scots pine in Scotland. COSTE21 meeting, “The role of Forest for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions”, 27-29 November 2003, Thessaloniki Greece, FRI,NAGREF (Poster presentation).
• Xenakis, G., Mencuccini, M., and Ray, D. Assessing productivity of Scots pine across Scotland using a modified, spatial version of the process model 3-PG. International Conference on  Modelling Forest Production, 19-22 April 2004, Vienna Austria, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences. (Poster presentation).
• Xenakis, G., Mencuccini, M., and Ray, D. Exploring the ecophysiological limitation of Scots pine in Scotland using the modified, spatial version of the process based model 3-PG. IUFRO conference, Sustainable forestry in theory and practice, 5-9 April 2005, Edinburgh UK, Forest Research. (Oral presentation).

Skills

• WindowsXP (MS-DOS) and Linux (UNIX) operating systems (Advanced)
• Expert knowledge of computers software:
• Microsoft Office: Word (Advanced), Excel (Advanced), Access (Advanced),  PowerPoint (Advanced)
• Statistical Packages: SPSS (Advanced), R (Advanced)
• Geographical Information Systems Software: ArcInfo (Advanced), ArcGIS 8.x-9.x (Advanced), ArcView 3.x (Advanced), MapInfo (Advanced)
• LaTeX (Advanced)
• Simile (Advanced)
  
• Programming
• Avenue for ArcView (Intermediate)
• Visual Basic (Intermediate)
• C++ (Intermediate)

Languages

• Greek (native language)
• English
• First Certificate of English by the University of Cambridge

Interests

• Music, Reading, Computers gadgets and Internet (regular blogger)

Other working experience

Period: June 2006 - October 2006
Company: The University of Edinburgh - Centre for Communication Interface Research
Job title: Research Assistant

Period: February 2006 - June 2006
Company: Edinburgh First
Job title: Conference and Baqueting waiting staff - Supervisor

Period: June 2005 -  February 2006
Company: Edinburgh First
Job title: Conference and Baqueting waiting staff

Period: 1998 - 2000
Company: "Ydrama", "Paramithia", "Rebetiko", Drama Greece
Job title: Musician

Period: 1998 - 1999
Company: Höffmans restaurant, Thessaloniki Greece.
Job title: Staff supervisor

Period: 1994 - 1995 and 1995 - 1996
Company:  Family Business, Chalkidiki, Greece
Job title: Waiter

Music apperances

• Ferbruary 2005 - Apperance with the band "Niavent" at Teviot student union in an event organized by the Hellenic Society of the University of Edinburgh.
• December 2005 - Appearance with the the band "Niavent" at Pleasance student union in an event organized by the Hellenic Society of the University of Edinburgh.
• October 2005 - A series of appearances with the band "Niavent" in Odense, Denmark.
• July 2005 - Appearance at Hogshead bar, Edinburgh with the band "Niavent" sponsored by Guitar Help .
• 2005 - Appearance at Teviot, Edinburgh with the band �Niavent� in an event organized by the Hellenic Society of the University of Edinburgh.
• 2004 - Appearance at Saint Andrews with the band "B flat" in an event organized by the Hellenic Society of the University of Saint Andrews.
• 2004. Appearance at Cabaret Voltair, Edinburgh with the band "Tubeki".
• 1998 - 2000. Concert appearances in the prefecture of Drama and Kavala, Greece.