Christos ARVANITIDIS is senior researcher at the HCMR^?. He is marine biologist and he is specialist of Polychaete Annelids. He has published more than 100 publications of which 39 publications in international peer review journals. He has participated in 45 conference and workshop publications (EU and international level) and 4 training guides. The total impact factor of his publications reaches 40.57 and his H-index is at 10. He maintains 3 marine biodiversity web sites and organized 17 conferences and workshops. He taught undergraduate Courses (Zoology and Marine Biology lab courses) and the Department of Zoology of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, and participated in several postgraduate seminars between 1994 and 2010 in the fields of Biological geography ; Multivariate techniques in community ecology ; Marine Biodiversity ; Community analyses.
He raised 4 educational grants (EU funding), collaborated in 35 projects of which 3 were educational projects, and coordinates 5 of them. He is scientific responsible (for HCMR) in 15 projects.