Maria Papathoma-Köhle

Career

• 2016 Elise Richter Postdoctoral fellow
• 2014 - 2015 Scientific coordinator of MSc „Risk Prevention and Disaster Management”, Postgraduate Center, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2009 - 2016 Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2006 - 2008 GIS Assistant, Vienna Consulting Engineers (VCE), Vienna, Austria
• 2005 Project Assistant, Department of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• 1999 - 2003 PhD Thesis: Tsunami vulnerability assessment using GIS with special reference to Greece, Centre for Disaster Management, Coventry University, United Kingdom
• 1998 Studies in Geographic Information Systems, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
• 1997 - 1998 MSc in Environmental Management, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Durham, United Kingdom
• 1991 - 1997 Studies in Geology, Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, University of Athens, Greece

Awards

• Year: 2016 Awards: Elise Richter Stipendium-FWF
• Year: 2012 Awards: Back to Research Grant 2012: The Faculty of Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy of the University of Vienna supports with this grant women that return to the university after their maternity leave.
• Year: 2002 Awards: Young European Scientist Award from the European Geophysical Society (now EGU) for the presentation in the 27th Assembly of European Geophysical Society, Nice, FRANCE April 2002.
• Year: 1999 Awards: PhD Scholarship Award, Higher Education Funding Council for England (Coventry University, UK) 1999 – 2003