My name is Danae Maniatis, I am 27 years young and I have a dual nationality: Belgian - Greek. My passion on the environment takes me to several corners of the world, yet I have a clear research focus on Africa...I am a PhD student at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at Oxford University. Currently I work at the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and am based in Rome. In this role, I am FAO's technical advisor for the development and implementation of the National Forest Inventory for the Democratic Republic of Congo in the context of REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation).

I started off in 2000 with a BSc in Environmental Sciences at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. During my Erasmus year I undertook a Maîtrise en Sciences d'Environnement (1st year MSc in Environmental Sciences)- option of Marine Biology, at the Université de la Méditerranée with the Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille (COM). In 2004 -2005 I did an MSc at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium in Environmental Sciences & Technology, specialisation of Bio-Engineering and in 2005 - 2006 an MSc in Environmental Change and Management at the ECI. You can find more information about all this on my CV.

On this website you can also find information about my previous and current research topics.

My hobbies? I love photography and exploring life...Scubadiving, swimming, walks in nature, dancing, reading and cooking are some of my favourite activities. I like keeping informed about politics and current issues of the world.

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Contact Details:

E-mail: danae.maniatis@gmail.com 

 FAO-UN 

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla,
00153, Rome, Italy.

Environmental Change Institute, 
School of Geography and the Environment,

University of Oxford
Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road,
Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK.