{"id":79105,"date":"2024-01-19T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/?p=79105"},"modified":"2024-12-05T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:50:44","slug":"new-staff-member-welcome-dr-danai-maria-kontou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/2024\/01\/19\/new-staff-member-welcome-dr-danai-maria-kontou\/","title":{"rendered":"New staff member &#8211; Welcome Dr Danai-Maria Kontou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danai is a lecturer and a researcher in human geography, with special interests in Polar Geography, Cartography and Creative Methods. Danai graduated with a Geography B.Sc. from the University of the Aegean and later has been a full scholarship grantee for the Cartography MSc (T.U. Munich, T.U Vienna, T.U. Dresden, and University of Twente). For her master\u2019s thesis, she developed innovative three-dimensional visuals in cylindrical form for the time and space illustration of the anomalies of ice and vegetation in the Arctic. Her thesis has been published in the Journal \u201cRegional Studies Regional Science\u201d. She continued her academic journey with a PhD in Durham University, fully funded under the DurhamArctic Research Centre for Training and Interdisciplinary Collaboration. For her PhD \u201cArctic Cartographic Uncertainties\u201d, Danai experimented with creative methods and art-science practices.\u00a0Her current research interests include spatiotemporal analysis of environmental phenomena, story-map-telling, art-based research, along with her great enthusiasm on polar geography, remote sensing, and data visualisation.<\/p>\n<p>In Teesside she is teaching: \u201cHuman Geography and Globalisation\u201d and \u201cInterpreting Environments\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danai is a lecturer and a researcher in human geography, with special interests in Polar Geography, Cartography and Creative Methods. Danai graduated with a Geography B.Sc. from the University of the Aegean and later has&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/2024\/01\/19\/new-staff-member-welcome-dr-danai-maria-kontou\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23320,"featured_media":79103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[52,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/files\/2024\/01\/photo_danai.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79105\/revisions\/79106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}