Karakatsouli Nafsika

Associate Professor

Applied Hydrobiology

Biography

Nafsika Karakatsouli graduated (1994) with a BSc in Animal Sciences from the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece) and obtained her PhD in Aquaculture (2000) from the same University. She works in the Laboratory of Applied Hydrobiology since 2002. Her research interests focus on nutrition, physiology, endocrinology, behaviour and welfare of farmed fish and the effects of several rearing conditions on fish productive traits

Research Focus

Aquaculture, fish rearing, nutrition, physiology-endocrinology, stress, welfare, behaviour and cognition, larval stages, recirculating aquaculture systems, rearing conditions – productivity.

Courses Taught

 

Recent Publications

Batzina, A., Drossos, I. P., Giannoudaki, K., Karakatsouli, N., 2020. Effects of size variability on individual growth and feeding behavior of European seabass. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 225, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2020.104963).

Oikonomidou, E., Batzina, A., Karakatsouli, N., 2019. Effects of food quantity and distribution on aggressive behaviour of gilthead seabream and European seabass, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 213: 124-130.

Batzina, A., Drossos, I.P., Karakatsouli, N., 2019. Effects of familiarity on individual growth and feeding behaviour of European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 211: 112-117.

Batzina, A., Drossos, I. P., Karakatsouli, N., 2018. Effects of grading on individual growth and feeding behaviour of European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax. Aquaculture Research, 49: 3759-3768.

Karakatsouli, N., Kassianos, N., Papoutsoglou, S.E., 2015. Effects of rearing density and tank colour on juvenile sharpsnout seabream (Diplodus puntazzo) growth performance. Aquacultural International 23: 943-953.

Contact

Dimakopoulos Building, 1st Floor

Laboratory of Applied Hydrobiology

+30 210 529 4429

nafsika@aua.gr