Identifying as a Mediterranean islander, Danae (pronounced as than-eye) was born and raised on Corfu island, northwest of Greece and southeast in the Adriatic Sea. Did her bachelor’s studies on Lesvos island, northeast Aegean Sea. Continued her early twenties in Athens and Crete. Returned briefly to Corfu and attended a master’s program in Historical Demography at Ionian University.
In 2018, she started her journey abroad in Munich, Vienna and Dresden, attending the M.Sc. in Cartography, where she was awarded a full scholarship from the Erasmus Mundus joint master. During her master’s, she fell in love with Polar Geography and developed her passion into a master’s thesis, “Developing Arctic Cylinders to map changes in the sea-ice and vegetation”. She published part of her thesis in the “Regional Studies Regional Science” Journal.
Polar Geography continued to be her main interest. Conducting a fully-funded PhD at Durham University, from the DurhamArctic program, in the Department of Geography on the “Arctic Cartographic Uncertainties”, where she used creative methods in geography and engaged most of her academic and artistic passions into a creative and innovative thesis.
After lecturing at Teesside University, bachelor courses in Human Geography and Research Methodologies, she is now a postdoctoral researcher at Vrije University of Amsterdam at the Institute for Environmental Studies. The project she is part of “Perfect Storm”, focuses on the risk of cascading hazards of flooding after drought, focusing on hydro-social feedback; her role includes the exploration of storylines of drought-flood events via data visualisation and art-science.
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Cartography M.Sc.
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