Dr Thomais VLACHOGIANNI

Senior Programme/Policy Officer, MIO-ECSDE

Thomais is an environmental chemist and ecotoxicologist (MSc, PhD). Her 15-years work experience in environmental research and management stretches over vast areas including marine litter and marine plastic pollution. Since 2008, she has been working at MIO-ECSDE as a Programme/Policy Officer, and has been involved in several transboundary projects addressing the whole management cycle of marine litter; she has led within the framework of the Interreg Med ACT4LITTER, the SWIM-H2020 SM & H2020 CB/MEP, the FP7 MARLISCO and the IPA-Adriatic DeFishGear projects several marine litter activities. She is an active member of the EU MSFD TGML and the UNEP/MAP CORMON. Currently, she is leading the studying and capitalization actions of the Interreg Med Plastic Busters MPAs project and she is the marine litter expert of the EU-funded WES project. She is author of some 100 publications addressing environment protection issues, with 7853 citations and i10-index equal to 34.