Meet the dedicated team of experts guiding the scientific excellence of Ocean and Coastal Research.
Professor at the Biological Oceanography Department of the Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo. Main research interests are plankton ecology and behavior, and marine environmental monitoring. Currently leads or co-leads research projects dealing with the development and application of imaging systems and computer vision tools for automatic classification of in-situ plankton imagery.
Full Professor at the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo. Expertise encompasses marine organic geochemistry and environmental pollution, with emphasis on the production, transport, and sources of organic matter. Research focuses on natural and anthropogenic organic markers in modern and ancient marine environments.
Full professor at the Marine Biology Department, Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil. Holds a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography. Presently Head of the Sediment Ecology Laboratory (EcoSed) and Co-head of the Graduate Program in Ocean and Earth Dynamics. Research interests include population and community ecology and environmental impacts on soft-bottom habitats.
Sea-going physical oceanographer, Head of the Ocean Dynamics Section of the Servicio de Hidrografía Naval and Professor of Oceanography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Currently Chair of the Executive Committee of the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation initiative (SAMOC).
Prominent researcher from the Chilean Science Agency and national certification committees for graduate programs. He has also served as an industrial consultant for developing seaweed culture and has promoted the use of environmentally sustainable technologies for aquaculture with different world stakeholders.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He obtained his PhD in Marine sciences focusing on modern and ancient marine environments.
Research Scientist at the University of Helsinki specializing in coastal marine geochemistry. Her research focuses on organic matter dynamics in transitional aquatic environments, alongside expertise in environmental pollution, paleoceanography, and numerical modeling from subtropical to polar systems.
Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, & Ecosystem Studies at the University of Washington. She has worked with marine, coastal, estuarine and lacustrine environments, from subtropical to polar regions.
Oceanographer at the Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (IIM –CSIC), Vigo, Spain. Scientific interest is focused on the study of marine biogeochemical cycles in coastal upwelling systems.
Associate Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute of Biology at Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Specializes in zoology and marine biology, with research expertise focused on the systematics and ecology of polychaetes.
Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Research is focused on the interlinks between marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Professor at the University of the Republic (Uruguay) specializing in coastal and intertidal marine ecology. Focuses on sandy beach ecosystems, human impacts, and ecosystem-based trophic modeling to support sustainable marine resource management, fisheries, and protected areas.
Oceanologist from the Faculty of Marine Sciences (FCM), focusing on multi-scale data derived from in situ sampling, satellite observations, climate models, and geospatial information.
Professor and Dean of the Oceanographic Institute - University of São Paulo (IOUSP), São Paulo, Brazil, where he leads the Coastal Dynamics research group. His work aims to better understand the complex interaction between the forcing conditions and the behavior of the coastal environment.
Full Professor of Chemical Oceanography at IOUSP with extensive research in marine biogeochemistry, nutrient and carbon cycles, trace metals, and ecotoxicology. Has led and participated in major oceanographic programs across the Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica (PROANTAR).
Associate Professor at the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences (DiSPeA), Urbino University, Italy. Main research activity focuses on recent benthic foraminifera as environmental bioindicators of pollution and as oceanographic, environmental, and climatological proxies.
Associate Professor at FURG (Brazil) leading research in bio-optics and ocean colour remote sensing. Focuses on coastal biogeochemical dynamics, phytoplankton ecology, and primary production, while coordinating the Remote Sensing branch of the ReNOMO ocean observing network.
Tenured researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) based at the Marine Science Institute, Barcelona, Spain. Scientific research interests focus on the structure, dynamics and conservation of marine living resources, with specific attention to higher trophic levels.
Researcher and Lecturer in Zoology and Fishery Biology at the University of Catania. Specializes in coastal fish ecology, elasmobranchs, and biological invasions in the Mediterranean. Scientific coordinator of the AlienFish project with over 150 peer-reviewed publications.
Professor at the University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, USA. Biological oceanographer interested in plankton ecology and evolution. Current work focuses on copepod adaptation to warming and acidification, and reciprocal grazer-toxic prey interactions.
Assistant Professor at the Center for Marine Biology (CEBIMar), University of São Paulo (USP). His research centers on fish biodiversity and conservation, with a particular focus on reef ecosystems, oceanic islands, and mesophotic reefs.
Professor at UFSCar and Head of the Laboratory of Microbial Processes and Biodiversity. Specializes in aquatic microbial ecology, focusing on biotic interactions and planktonic community dynamics across all trophic network levels, from viruses to zooplankton.
Born and raised in Switzerland. In 1969, received the Dr.sc.nat. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH-Z). Has held faculty positions globally, focusing on plankton behavior and aquatic ecosystems.
Professor of Marine Ecology at Edinburgh Napier University (MASTS). Specializes in the conservation, restoration, and functional ecology of coastal ecosystems—particularly mangroves, seagrasses, and biogenic reefs—combining experimental ecology with practical management and livelihood solutions.
Physical oceanographer and cryosphere and climate researcher, currently working at the Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium. Main research interests are the processes linked to ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions.
Professor at the Center for Marine Studies (UFPR) and CNPq Research Fellow. Specializes in benthic biodiversity and meiofauna, integrating morphology, genetics, and ecological biomarkers within interdisciplinary oceanographic frameworks to address marine biodiversity shortfalls.
Senior lecturer at the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Namibia, Henties Bay, Namibia. Research interests include population dynamics of fishery resources, focusing on long-term trends in relation to climate change.
Researcher with extensive expertise in coastal morphodynamics, sedimentology, and the evolution of estuaries and coastal environments, contributing significantly to understanding the dynamics of these critical zones.
Has a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo, a master’s and a Ph.D. degree in Oceanography, and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Research Professor at UH Mānoa specializing in the physiological ecology of planktonic organisms. A pioneer in copepod mechanoreception and marine ‘omics, her current research uses environmental transcriptomics to study sub-arctic copepod adaptations to global climate change.
Marine scientist and Project Manager at the Minderoo OceanOmics Centre (University of Western Australia). Specializes in marine ecology, kelp forest carbon pathways, and krill ecology across global ecosystems. Serves on the ASLO Board of Directors and leads the ANZ Node for the UN Ocean Decade ECOP Programme.
Full professor at the Fishing Department, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil, where she has worked since 1990. Holds a Bachelor’s Oceanology , a Doctorat d' État (D.SC. equivalent) at Université de Bretagne Occidentale, in Brest, France. Presently Heads the Population Dynamics Laboratory (DIMAR) acting in three Master and Doctorate Programs. Research interests include fish population dynamics, fish conservation mostly regarding elasmobranchs.
Biologist with a background in marine microbiology and bioinformatics. Currently, a PhD candidate at the Oceanography Institute - University of São Paulo, Brazil. Research interests include marine extremophiles, chemosynthetic metabolisms, microbial ecology, and microbial bioinformatics, with a focus on metabolic modeling to assess the habitability of ocean worlds.
Biologist with a background in environmental and marine sciences. Currently a direct PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo (USP), working in Biological Oceanography with a focus on extremophilic microorganisms. Research interests include microbial community composition in subsurface cave environments and the deep ocean, as well as microbial ecology and evolution in extreme environments.
