THE OCTOPUS

Name: Dido Sotiropoulou.

Position: Ticket Sales.

Place and date of birth: Patras, Greece, 13th May 1992.

Hometown: Rio, Greece.

Star sign: Taurus.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Biology (University of Patras), Master's degree in Ecology (University of Copenhagen) with a specialisation in animal behaviour.

Languages: Greek, English, French (basics).

Experience: Internship as a Marine Mammal Researcher at the Research Centre in Húsavík, Iceland, 2021. Fieldwork for my master's thesis on white-beaked dolphin mother/offspring pair interactions with the use of drones in Skjálfandi Bay, Iceland, 2023. Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute Expedition and contribution to SAvE Whales project (System for the Avoidance of ship-strikes with Endangered Whales), Greece, 2025. Laboratory assistant for Ichthyological & image analyses of selected species of the Mesopelagic Zone in the context of global change, Greece, 2026. Training in Passive Acoustic Monitoring for marine mammal sounds detection and classification, 2026. Started at Gentle Giants in 2026.

Interests: Reading and talking about cetaceans, travelling, sketching, cooking.

Favourite Icelandic food: Plokkfiskur.

Favourite foreign food: Sushi.

Favourite band / singer: Pink Floyd.