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Aristides (Aris) Moustakas

External Scientific Collaborators (Vertebrates Division)

E-mail arismoustakas@gmail.com

Research Interests

  • Spatial analysis

  • Time series analysis

  • Environmental management

  • Population dynamics

  • Landscape ecology

  • Sustainability

  • Agent Based Simulation Modelling

  • Epidemiology

  • Agricultural informatics

  • Impact and risk assessment

  • Experimental design

  • Multivariate statistics

  • Climatic changes

  • Land use changes

  • Behavioral analytics from social media

Education

  • 2006: Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (Mathematical Ecology), Department of Biology and Pharmaceutics, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany
  • 2003: MSc in Quality Control and Environmental Management, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece
  • 2000: Diploma (Bachelor & MEng) in Industrial Engineering and Management, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Recent Publications

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2026_The land use-climate change-biodiversity nexus in the perceptions of European islands stakeholders

Moustakas, A., Christoforidi, I., Zittis, G., Nazli Demirel, Fois, M., Zotos, S., Eirini Gallou, Valentini Stamatiadou, Tzirkalli, E., Christos Zoumides, Košić, K., Aikaterini Christopoulou, Aleksandra Dragin, Łowicki, D., Gil, A., Almeida, B., Panos Chrysos, Balzan, M. V., Mansoldo, M. D. C., & Rannveig Ólafsdóttir. (2025) The land use-climate change-biodiversity nexus in the perceptions of European islands stakeholders. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 117, 108199–108199.

2025_Insular ecosystem services in peril: a systematic review on the impacts of climate change and other drivers

Zittis, G., Zoumides, C., Zemah-Shamir, S. et al. (2025) 2025_Insular ecosystem services in peril: a systematic review on the impacts of climate change and other drivers. Climatic Change, 178, 127.

2025_Climate land use and other drivers’ impacts on island ecosystem services

Moustakas, A., Shiri Zemah-Shamir, Tase, M., Zotos, S., Nazli Demirel, Christos Zoumides, Christoforidi, I., Turgay Dindaroglu, Tamer Albayrak, Cigdem Kaptan Ayhan, Fois, M., Paraskevi Manolaki, Sandor, A. D., Sieber, I., Valentini Stamatiadou, Tzirkalli, E., Vogiatzakis, I. N., Ziv Zemah-Shamir, & Zittis, G. (2025) Climate land use and other drivers’ impacts on island ecosystem services: A global review. The Science of the Total Environment, 973, 179147–179147.

2023 Wind turbine power and land cover effects on cumulative bat deaths

Moustakas, A., Georgiakakis, P., Kret, E. Kapsalis, E. (2023) Wind turbine power and land cover effects on cumulative bat deaths. Sci Total Environ, 892, 164536.

2021 The biodiversity-wind energy-land use nexus in a global biodiversity hotspot.

Kati, V., Kassara, Ch., Vrontisi, Z., Moustakas, A. (2021) The biodiversity-wind energy-land use nexus in a global biodiversity hotspot. Science of The Total Environment, 768:144471.

Short CV

I have been a Senior Assistant Professor in Data Analytics, at the Institute for Applied Data Analytics at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, in Brunei, Borneo – one of the highest ranked young Universities on Earth – and before that Lecturer in Predictive Modelling at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London, UK. I have contributed in publishing over 45 journal papers among others in journals such as Nature Communications. My research featured in the BBC, BBC4, The Guardian, BBC Countryfile, The Ecologist, Motherboard as well as Greek, German and French media. In addition, my research had substantial impact resulting among others in an invitation to brief the British Parliament on data analytics regarding Bovine Tuberculosis, followed by Freedom of Information Act submitted by MPs and members of the House of Lords.

Published research on renewable wind energy spatial planning was also discussed in the Greek Parliament and ultimately resulted in changing the Greek legislation regarding renewable energy planning and cancelling renewable energy resources licenses in several non-fragmented mountainous areas.

I am serving as a contracted expert and final decision panellist of the Horizon 2020 research grants by the European Commission in 2020, 2021, and 2022.  In addition, in 2022 I am serving as a contracted expert and panellist of research funding in agriculture and environment of the Romanian government.

 

 

Research papers

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2026_The land use-climate change-biodiversity nexus in the perceptions of European islands stakeholders

Moustakas, A., Christoforidi, I., Zittis, G., Nazli Demirel, Fois, M., Zotos, S., Eirini Gallou, Valentini Stamatiadou, Tzirkalli, E., Christos Zoumides, Košić, K., Aikaterini Christopoulou, Aleksandra Dragin, Łowicki, D., Gil, A., Almeida, B., Panos Chrysos, Balzan, M. V., Mansoldo, M. D. C., & Rannveig Ólafsdóttir. (2025) The land use-climate change-biodiversity nexus in the perceptions of European islands stakeholders. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 117, 108199–108199.

2025_Insular ecosystem services in peril: a systematic review on the impacts of climate change and other drivers

Zittis, G., Zoumides, C., Zemah-Shamir, S. et al. (2025) 2025_Insular ecosystem services in peril: a systematic review on the impacts of climate change and other drivers. Climatic Change, 178, 127.

2025_Climate land use and other drivers’ impacts on island ecosystem services

Moustakas, A., Shiri Zemah-Shamir, Tase, M., Zotos, S., Nazli Demirel, Christos Zoumides, Christoforidi, I., Turgay Dindaroglu, Tamer Albayrak, Cigdem Kaptan Ayhan, Fois, M., Paraskevi Manolaki, Sandor, A. D., Sieber, I., Valentini Stamatiadou, Tzirkalli, E., Vogiatzakis, I. N., Ziv Zemah-Shamir, & Zittis, G. (2025) Climate land use and other drivers’ impacts on island ecosystem services: A global review. The Science of the Total Environment, 973, 179147–179147.

2023 Wind turbine power and land cover effects on cumulative bat deaths

Moustakas, A., Georgiakakis, P., Kret, E. Kapsalis, E. (2023) Wind turbine power and land cover effects on cumulative bat deaths. Sci Total Environ, 892, 164536.

2021 The biodiversity-wind energy-land use nexus in a global biodiversity hotspot.

Kati, V., Kassara, Ch., Vrontisi, Z., Moustakas, A. (2021) The biodiversity-wind energy-land use nexus in a global biodiversity hotspot. Science of The Total Environment, 768:144471.

2021 Minimal effect of prescribed burning on fire spread rate and intensity in savanna ecosystems.

Moustakas, A., Davlias,O. (2021) Minimal effect of prescribed burning on fire spread rate and intensity in savanna ecosystems. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 35, 849–860.

2021 Editorial: Mathematical Modelling of the Pandemic of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Patterns, Dynamics, Prediction, and Control.

Li, H-J., Wang, L., Wang, Z., Du, Z., Xia, C., Moustakas, A., Pei, S. (2021) Editorial: Mathematical Modelling of the Pandemic of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Patterns, Dynamics, Prediction, and Control. Front. Phys., 9:738602.

2020 A spatially explicit impact assessment of road characteristics, road-induced fragmentation and noise on birds species in Cyprus.

Konstantopoulos, K., Moustakas, A., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2020) A spatially explicit impact assessment of road characteristics, road-induced fragmentation and noise on birds species in Cyprus. Biodiversity, 21(1), 61-71.