Despina Makri is currently a Research Associate at the Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, and a Research Assistant at the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence. She holds a BSc in Marine Sciences (2016) and an MSc in Geography and Applied Geoinformatics (2018) from the University of the Aegean, Greece. Since 2021, she has been pursuing a PhD focused on seagrass mapping with remote sensing advances at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her work experience includes involvement in EU-funded projects such as Copernicus User Uptake (FPCUP) and MSCA-RISE, as well as previous roles as a teaching and research assistant at academic institutions in Greece and Cyprus. Her research interests involve environmental remote sensing, geospatial intelligence, and Earth observation applications for marine and terrestrial monitoring. She has expertise in machine learning, satellite image processing, and GIS tools. Despina has actively contributed to educational outreach and stakeholder engagement initiatives. She was awarded the Best Paper Award at the EMCEI-25 Conference for her work “Seagrass mapping in Cyprus using Cloud-computing and Machine-learning”.
Despina Makri is currently a Research Associate at the Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, and a Research Assistant at the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence. She holds a BSc in Marine Sciences (2016) and an MSc in Geography and Applied Geoinformatics (2018) from the University of the Aegean, Greece. Since 2021, she has been pursuing a PhD focused on seagrass mapping with remote sensing advances at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her work experience includes involvement in EU-funded projects such as Copernicus User Uptake (FPCUP) and MSCA-RISE, as well as previous roles as a teaching and research assistant at academic institutions in Greece and Cyprus. Her research interests involve environmental remote sensing, geospatial intelligence, and Earth observation applications for marine and terrestrial monitoring. She has expertise in machine learning, satellite image processing, and GIS tools. Despina has actively contributed to educational outreach and stakeholder engagement initiatives. She was awarded the Best Paper Award at the EMCEI-25 Conference for her work “Seagrass mapping in Cyprus using Cloud-computing and Machine-learning”.