Afroditi Grigoropoulou

Postdoc
Interests
Freshwater biodiversity Ecology and Evolution Species Distribution Modelling Geo-informatics
Education
- MSc in Ecology, Environmental Management and Restoration, 2018-2019
Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - BSc in Biology, 2013-2017
University of Athens, Greece
Afroditi Grigoropoulou is a Postdoc at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). She is working within the AquaINFRA project, developing new tools for spatial freshwater biodiversity analyses.
Career
- since 2025 Postdoc at Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
- 2020-2024 Doctoral student at IGB
- 2018-2019 - Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science, University of Barcelona (MSc)
- 2013-2017 - Faculty of Biology, University of Athens (BSc)
Projects
Publications (8)
The hidden dimensions of biodiversity (2026) · in revision
Environment90m – globally standardized environmental variables for freshwater science at high spatial resolution (2026) · Earth System Science Data 2026, 1541–1559
Complex Life Cycles Shape the Functional Biogeography of European Dragonflies (2025) · Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34, e70056
GeoFRESH – an online platform for freshwater geospatial data processing (2024) · International Journal of Digital Earth, 2391033
hydrographr: an R package for scalable hydrographic data processing (2023) · Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 2953-2963
DOI Project R-package Installation SDM workflow Connectivity workflow Authors & details
The Global EPTO Database: worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects (2023) · Global Ecology and Biogeography
Hydrography90m: A new high-resolution global hydrographic dataset (2022) · Earth System Science Data, 14, 4525–4550
Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales (2022) · Global Ecology and Biogeography, 5, 1006-1020