Spyros Galatsidas is Professor in the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources at Democritus University of Thrace in the field of Forest Management – Management of non-wood production functions of the forest. He holds a BA degree in Forestry and Natural Environment (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) (1987), a diploma and a MSc (International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies) (1995) and a PhD (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Feriburg, Germany).
He has taught, as a scientific associate, courses on inventory, data analysis, evaluation and management of forest ecosystems in the Departments of Forestry of the former Technological Educational Institutes of Kavala and Lamia as well as in the Department of Forestry of the Democritus University of Thrace. He served as an assistant professor in the Department of Forestry of Drama (2007-2010) and since 2010 he serves in the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources of the Democritus University of Thrace as a Professor. He teaches a number of undergraduate courses: Forest Management, Management and Protection of Wetlands, Applied Forest Management, Management of non-wood forest functions as well as postgraduate courses: Natural Resources Management, Principles and Methods of Forest Management, Statistical Analysis of Biological Data, Applied Social Statistics, Research Methodology.
He has worked on a series of research projects funded by national and European resources (LIFE- nature, EPEAEK, OPAP II, Intelligent Energy Europe, Innovation and Networks Executive Agency, EuropeAid, life Climate). Most recently, he was the scientific leader of these projects (http://www.bioeuparks.eu/, http://seemla.eu/en/home/, http://europeaid ktu.duth.gr, https://lifestemma.eu/).
His research interests include sustainable management of forests, the inventory and analysis of forest ecosystems, evaluation of forest ecosystem services, planning of the production of goods and services from the forest, management of protected areas, the organization of databases and Geographic Information Systems, geospatial analyses in the management of forest ecosystems and natural resources, processing of forest management inventory data, use of forest biomass for energy production and certification of sustainable forest management.
