Sofokli Venizelou Avenue
71409 Heraklion
GR
sec@nhmc.uoc.gr
Sofokli Venizelou Avenue
71409 Heraklion
GR
sec@nhmc.uoc.gr
Dr.Iasmi Stathi
The Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC) was established in the early ‘80s as a department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Crete (UoC) whichis a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented University with a well-known reputation both nationally and internationally, with state-of-the art curricula and graduate programs, considerable research activity and initiatives that reflect its dynamic character. It has 17 Departments in 5 Faculties, around 13,000 undergraduate& 2000 postgraduate students, 540 academic staff & 400 administrative and technical staff. NHMC consists of five divisions. The Zoological, the Botanical, the Geological and Paleontological, the Mineralogical and the Anthropological one. At present, four departments are fully operational: The Zoological, the Botanical, the Mineralogical and the Geological combined with the Paleontological department. All NHMC staff is operating under the UoC operational chart.
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| staff total | 43.0 |
| scientific staff post doc (non permanent) | 3.0 |
| scientific staff collections (permanent) | 6.0 |
| scientific staff collections (non permanent) | 2.0 |
| scientific staff associated | 7.0 |
| staff collection managers technicians (permanent) | 2.0 |
| staff collection managers technicians (non permanent) | 1.0 |
| staff administrative (permanent) | 3.0 |
| staff administrative (non permanent) | 5.0 |
| staff exhibitions (permanent) | 2.0 |
| staff exhibitions (non permanent) | 10.0 |
The Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC) www.nhmc.uoc.gr was established in 1980 within the frames of the faculty of Science of the University of Crete (UoC). At present, four departments are fully operational: The Zoological, the Botanical, the Mineralogical and the Geological combined with the Paleontological department. It is the only Natural History Museum in Greece, dealing with all aspects of natural environment and occupies a significant number of specialists in biological and geological diversity.
In December 2012, NHMC was awarded by the Greek National Academy of Sciencesfor its activity on education, research and publishing. In NHMC permanent Exhibition Halls, of 3500 m2, in the city of Heraklion, Crete, the natural environment of the eastern Mediterranean area with special emphasis on Greece and Crete, is displayed.
NHMC’s research program is focused mainly on:
Link of the Research page : Research page
Link of the Annual report :
NHMC is a University Museum belonging to the University of Crete (UoC). For this reason NHMC is closely connected with all the educational activities of UoC such as teaching and supervision of PhDs and Master Degrees. Since 1993 to 2011, 18 PhDs & 32 Master Degrees have been supervised by NHMC scientific staff. |
Yes, in the frames of funded projects of Educational Research |