Thomais Kakouli-Duarte has research experience in the areas of agri-environmental science, specifically, the application of nematodes and their assemblages as indicators or environmental change, biological control of insect pests using entomopathogenic nematodes, the development of DNA-based diagnostics of quarantine insect pests and bumblebee molecular ecology and conservation. She holds a 1st class BSc (Hons) from the Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece, and an MSc in the Technology of Crop Protection and PhD on the biological control of Otiorhunchs sulcatus using entomopathogenic nematodes from the University of Reading, UK. She is currently a biosciences and ecology Lecturer in the Department of Applied Science, and Director of enviroCORE, SETU's centre of research and enterprise in bio-environmental technologies. Thomais has communicated over a hundred peer reviewed publications, proceedings in national and international conferences and abstracts.