Paraskevi Karanikola was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1968. She graduated from the School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1990) and a Forestry and Environmental Science Doctorate from the same university (1998). She is Professor of Forest Protection in the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece.  https://utopia.duth.gr/pkaranik/files/CV_Karanikola.html