Education
2016 – 2022
PhD Palaeontology and Palaeoenvironments
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece and Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria
2012 – 2015
MSc Palaeontology and Stratigraphy
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
2007 – 2009
MSc Systematics, Evolution, Palaeontology
Sorbonne Universités (ex UPMC Paris VI) & Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
BSc Sciences of Life
Sorbonne Universités (ex UPMC Paris VI), Paris, France
Further Education
2019
training school of COST action Medsalt “The Messinian Salinity Crisis from a fieldwork perspective” Sorbas Basin, Spain
2018
Umweltpaläontologie and Conservation Palaeobiology course
University of Vienna, Austria
2018
Ecological modelling in Palaeontology course
University of Vienna, Austria
Career
Since 2023
Curator Palaeontology
Natural History Museum, Basel
2023
Lecturer of Earth Sciences, University of the Antilles
Guadeloupe, France
2023
Researcher, Museum of Palaeontology and Geology, NKUA
Athens, Greece
2020 – 2021: Researcher, Department of Palaeontology and Historical Geology, NKUA
Athens, Greece
2019 – 2020: Researcher, Museum of Palaeontology and Geology, NKUA,
Athens, Greece
2018, 2019
Visiting researcher at the laboratory for Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Dynamics, Senckenberg Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
Scientific Interest
Mollusc taxonomy (mainly gastropods and bivalves), biogeography, Neogene, Messinian Salinity Crisis
Publications
Agiadi, K., Hohmann, N., Gliozzi, E., Thivaiou, D. et al. 2024. Late Miocene transformation of the Mediterranean Sea biodiversity. Science Advances 10(39): 1134.
Agiadi, K., Hohmann, N., Gliozzi, E., Thivaiou, D. et al. 2024. The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis. Science 385, 986-991.
Moissette P, Quillévéré F, Kontakiotis G, Thivaiou, D., Koskeridou, E., Antonarakou, A., Drinia, H., Melinte-Dobrinescu, M., Cornée, J.-J., 2024. Early Pleistocene upper bathyal communities in faultbounded paleovalleys of the island of Rhodes (Greece). Quaternary Research.
Thivaiou, D., Harzhauser, M., Koskeridou, E. Cenozoic diversity and distribution of the mangrove- and mudflat-associated gastropod genus Terebralia (Potamididae: Caenogastropoda) in Europe. Comptes Rendus PalÉvol 22 (14), 245–264.
Agiadi, K., Koskeridou, E., Thivaiou, D., 2021. At the crossroads: Early Miocene marine fishes of the Proto-Mediterranean Sea. Fossil Record 24 (2): 233–246.
Thivaiou, D., Harzhauser, M., Koskeridou, E., 2019. Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli section, Proto-Mediterranean Sea (NW Greece). Geodiversitas 41 (2): 323–366.
Other Activities
- Vice president of the Hellenic Malacological association
- Representative of Switzerland in the COST Action SaltAges – CA23124