Dr. Dimitris Sakellariou

Work Packages / Deliverables: WP5, WP6 / D5.1, D5.3, D6.1, D6.2, D6.3, D6.4

Other Information

- Bachelor of Geology National University of Athens (1984).
- Ph.D. of the University of Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany (1989)

Research interests:

Geology, Marine Geology, Geodynamics & Tectonics, Marine Geological Dangers, Bottom and Ecosystem Mapping, Marine Geo-Archeology

Research experience:

Participation in> 50 research and development projects, most of them as Project Coordinator and Scientific Coordinator. He is the author of 100 scientific papers at international scientific conferences and international conferences. He has coordinated or participated in dozens of research voyages with various oceanographic vessels, both Greek and European, in the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Red Sea.

Selected recent scientific publications:

Lykousis, V., Sakellariou, D., Moretti, I. & Kaberi, H., 2007. Late Quaternary basin evolution of the Gulf of Corinth: Sequence stratigrapgy, sedimentation, fault-slip and subsidence rates. Tectonophysics, 440, p. 29-51.

Sakellariou, D., Lykousis, V., Alexandri, S., Kaberi, H., Rousakis, G., Nomikou, P., Georgiou, P., Ballas, D., 2007. Faulting, seismic-stratigraphic architecture and Late Quaternary evolution of the Gulf of Alkyonides basin – East Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece. Basin Research, 19/2, p. 273-295.

T.M. Alves, V. Lykousis, D. Sakellariou, S. Alexandri & P. Nomikou (2007). Constraining the origin and evolution of confined turbidite systems: southern Cretan margin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea (34°30-36°N). GeoMarine Letters, 27, p. 41-61

Sakellariou, D., Rousakis, G., Nomikou, P., Croff Bell, K., Carey, S., Sigurdsson, H., (2012). Tsunami triggering mechanisms associated with the 17th cent. BC Minoan eruption of Thera volcano,Greece. Proc. 22nd International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 17-22, 2012

Sakellariou D., Mascle, J., and Lykousis, V., 2013. Strike slip tectonics and transtensional deformation in the Aegean Region and the Hellenic Arc: preliminary results. Bul. Geol. Soc. Greece, vol. XLVII, vol. 2, 647-656

Charalampakis, M., Lykousis, V., Sakellariou, D., Papatheodorou, G., Ferentinos, G., 2014. Thetectono-sedimentary evolution of the Lechaion Gulf, the south eastern branch of the Corinth Graben, Greece. Marine Geology, 351 (2014) 58–75

Beckers, Α., Hubert-Ferrari, Α., Beck, C, Bodeux, S., Tripsanas, E., Sakellariou, D., De Batist, M., 2015: Active faulting at the western tip of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, from high-resolution seismic data. Marine Geology, 360, 55–69

Foley, B.P., K. DellaPorta, D. Sakellariou, B. Bingham, R. Camilli, R. Eustice, D. Evagelistis, V. Ferrini, M. Hansson, K. Katsaros, D. Kourkoumelis, A. Mallios, P. Micha, D. Mindell, C. Roman, H. Singh, D. Switzer, T. Theodoulou, 2009. New Methods for Underwater Archaeology: The 2005 Chios Ancient Shipwreck Survey. HESPERIA 78 (2009), pp. 269–305 (publ. by the American Archaeological School at Athens).

Flemming, N., Bailey, G.N., Sakellariou, D., 2012. Migration: Value of submerged early human sites (Letter ). NATURE, Vol. 486, Issue 7401, 7 June 2012, Page 34

Sakellariou, D., Galanidou, N., 2016. Pleistocene submerged landscapes and Palaeolithic archaeology in the tectonically active Aegean region. In: Harff, J., Bailey, G. & Lueth, F. (eds) 2016. Geology and Archaeology: Submerged Landscapes of the Continental Shelf. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 411, 145–178., first published onJuly 6, 2015, doi:10.1144/SP411.9.