About Dimitris's Work
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I recieved a PhD from the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean. My PhD thesis concerned mutli-scale simulation modeling of Land Use/Cover changes. My background is in Forestry (BSc) and applied Geo-Informatics (MSc). So far, I have been involved in various interdisciplinary researh groups in subjects related to earth observation, change detection, spatial analysis, data fusion, simulation modeling and scenario-based land use assessment. My main research interests span theoretical and applied aspects of Land Use/Cover changes, the interplay of proximate and underlying driving forces, the multiple scales involved and the role along with the effectiveness of planning and policy. My current work at the Urban Sustainability Research Group focuses on a) modeling of food-energy-water nexus of urban agriculture across multiple scales and b) spatial analysis of urban meat production-consumption patterns and dynamics.