Personal identification

Full name

Myrsini Lymperaki

Citation names

• Lymperaki, Myrsini M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

E415-230B-3637

ORCID iD

0009-0004-7842-4097

Email addresses

• mlymperaki@ualg.pt (Professional)

Websites

• https://scholar.google.gr/citations?hl=en&user=j66BUZUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AKKJWFenJyLTmNwZ6rtqKDNRyswUU_4II7yl6Xxd7hyeK7YJLD1svjTjJwAReLoix7cjkdjqlUSRhWOrVnKWqZWt (Scholar)
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/myrsini-lymperaki-431b19182/ (Professional)
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Myrsini-Lymperaki-2 (Professional)
• https://novo.ccmar.ualg.pt/users/a86194 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
• Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Oceanography

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Greek (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

	Degree	Classification
2023/12/01 - 2027/12/31 Ongoing	Marine, Earth & Environmental Sciences (Doutoramento) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal "Harnessing Microbiome Insights for Enhanced Seaweed Cultivation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/09/01 - 2021/08/31 Concluded	Biological Sciences (Master) Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands "- Coral communities on 18th Century city walls as artificial reefs in St. Eustatius: the role of coral-associated fauna - The impact of sub-surface irrigation with sewage effluent on antimicrobial resistance" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09/01 - 2019/02/19 Concluded	Oceanography and Marine Biosciences (Bachelor) Panepistemio Aigaiou Tmema Okeanographias kai Thalassion Bioepistemon, Greece "Floating microplastic abundance and composition off the Eastern coast of Lesvos island (NE Aegean) in autumn 2017" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/12/01 - Current	PRR - BLUE BIOECONOMY PACT - VERTICAL ALGAS C644915664-00000026 PhD student Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Ongoing

Publications

Journal article

Bettina Scholz; Kleopatra Grammatiki; Eleni Avramidi; Myrsini M. Lymperaki; Vasilis Resaikos; Magdalene Papatheodoulou; Frithjof C. Küpper. "First record of the diatom pathogen Diatomophthora perforans cf. subsp. pleurosigmae (Oomycota) from the Mediterranean microphytobenthos". Botanica Marina (2025): https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2025-0028. 10.1515/bot-2025-0028 Anna Stepien; Piotr Józwiak; Sergio C. Garcia Gómez; Eleni Avramidi; Kleopatra Grammatiki; Myrsini Lymperaki; Frithjof C. Küpper; Patricia Esquete. "Description of two new Apseudopsis species (A. larnacensis sp. nov and A. salinus sp. nov.) (Tanaidacea: Crustacea) from the Mediterranean and a biogeographic overview of the genus". PeerJ (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18740. 10.7717/peerj.18740 SERGIO C. GARCIA GÓMEZ; ALAN A. MYERS; ELENI AVRAMIDI; KLEOPATRA GRAMMATIKI; MYRSINI M. LYMPERAKI; VASILIS RESAIKOS; MAGDALENE PAPATHEODOULOU; et al. "A new species of Pontocrates Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) from Cyprus". Zootaxa (2024): https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.1.5. 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.1.5 Lymperaki, Myrsini M.; Hill, Claudia E.L.; Hoeksema, Bert W.. "The effects of wave exposure and host cover on coral-associated fauna of a centuries-old artificial reef in the Caribbean". Ecological Engineering 176 (2022): 106536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106536. Accepted • 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106536 Hill, Claudia E.L.; Lymperaki, Myrsini M.; Hoeksema, Bert W.. "A centuries-old manmade reef in the Caribbean does not substitute natural reefs in terms of species assemblages and interspecific competition". Marine Pollution Bulletin 169 (2021): 112576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112576. Accepted • 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112576

Preprint

Cicero Alves-Lima; Luis Antonio Barreto; Carina Monico; Lidiane Gouvea; Francisca Felix; Brigitta Varga; Joana de Lemos Filipe; et al. "SAMMBA is a high-throughput pipeline for isolating and phenotyping macroalgal strains". 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.04.674200. 10.1101/2025.09.04.674200

Other distinction

2020	PADI Rescue Diver Certificate
2017	Skipper Sailing Certificate
2017	Lifeguard certification
2010	Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver Certificate