Dr. Marios Andreou is a Conservation Biologist with over 20 years of experience in management and implementation of research funded projects. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate of the Nature Conservation Unit of Frederick University and a Visitor Lecturer of the School of Health Sciences of Frederick University, teaching the course ‘Elements of Botany’. He also served as a Visiting Lecturer for the course ‘Biodiversity and Education’ within the framework of the Postgraduate Program ‘Education for the Environment and Sustainable Development’ and the ‘Six-month Education and Training Program for the Environment and Sustainable Development’ of the School of Education and Social Sciences of Frederick University. He also taught a course titled 'Plant Physiology' at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus. He also worked as a Research Officer at Research & Interconnection Service of Frederick University from 2011 to 2020.

He graduated from the Faculty of Biology, of the University of Athens, in 2004 and he received a PhD in Biology from the same Department in 2010. His PhD thesis focused on the Conservation Biology of rare plants of Cyprus.

His research interests focus on the aspects of conservation biology and biodiversity conservation, as well as on plant physiology and seed ecophysiology. Specifically, he emphases on the issues of nature management, mapping and monitoring of threatened plant species and habitat types, reproductive biology, recording of threats and pressures and, finally, on the proposal of sound (in situ, inter situ) conservation and management measures of flora and habitat types. Within the framework of ex situ conservation, Dr. Andreou focuses on the study of seed germination and ‘breaking’ of seed dormancy for the development of seed germination protocols.

In his professional career, he had participated in nine LIFE projects of the European Union (two of which as a project manager), in one project of Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON), in one Interreg V-A ‘Greece – Cyprus’ project, in five projects funded by Research and Innovation Foundation, to the elaboration of a significant number of environmental studies; appropriate impact assessments; monitoring and management plans, in monitoring of plant species and habitat types of Annex I and II of the Directive 92/43/EEC and in mapping of plant species and habitat types. He has also gained considerable experience in operation of the Natura 2000 Network and in conservation and management of endangered plant species and habitat types.

He had published nine articles in international scientific journals and has been involved in writing chapters in six books. He had participated in 28 scientific conferences in Cyprus and abroad and published 42 peer-reviewed papers in minutes of national and international conferences.