About
Dr. Konstantina Mitsi is a molecular ecologist at the HADES group of the Santander Oceanographic Centre (IEO-CSIC). Her current research focuses on marine biodiversity monitoring in rocky infralittoral habitats under Spain’s Marine Strategies programme, with particular interest to seabed integrity. Previously, she studied the evolutionary origins of animal diversity, documented novel and undescribed species using molecular approaches, and investigated host–microbiota evolutionary dynamics. She has extensive experience optimising, adapting, and applying standard molecular protocols to non-model organisms. Her analytical toolkit spans phylogenomics, comparative genomics, metabarcoding, and metagenomics.
Joined
October 2026
