Biography

Sofia Margoni is a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP) at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly (UTH), specializing in "Physical and Environmental Geography." She is a graduate of the Department of Geology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and completed her postgraduate studies (Master's and PhD) as a scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). To obtain her MSc in "Geography & Environment," she authored an original master's thesis titled “Environmental structure – evolution of the Schinias area of the Marathon plain during the Holocene and anthropogenic interventions for its management.” She was awarded her Doctoral Degree with highest honors ("Excellent") for her dissertation titled “Investigation of the environmental evolution processes of the wetlands and the Marathon plain during the Holocene using Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.).” She has worked as a freelance consultant conducting geological and environmental impact studies, as well as a researcher in numerous research programs for the Research Committees of AUTH and UTH, focusing primarily on the natural and anthropogenic environment, its management, and its evolution. From 2001 to the present, she has taught in the undergraduate study programs of the Departments of Geology (AUTH), Agriculture, Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment (UTH), Planning and Regional Development (UTH), and Architecture (UTH). She has also taught in the Postgraduate Study Programs (MSc) of the Department of Geology at AUTH, as well as the Departments of Agriculture, Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment, and Architecture at UTH.

Research Interests

Natural and anthropogenic environment, environmental evolution, physical geography, cartography, geographic information systems (GIS).

Studies

• 2000, Degree in Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• 2002, MSc Geography and Environment , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• 2006, PhD in Geomorphology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki