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Speakers & experts short biographies The Ocean of Tomorrow projects: what results so far? Brussels, 26 March 2014 is Head of Science at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, an independent marine research organisation with charitable status. She leads the Sea and Society area of science and its broad spectrum of interdisciplinary research projects from the socio-economics of marine ecosystems and their services through to environment and human health, marine biodiscovery and renewable energy. In September 2013 she completed a 3 year part-time post as Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK’s marine regulator, the Marine Management Organisation. She is a marine ecologist, originally with a deep interest in benthic ecology but now her focus is on interdisciplinary, societally relevant marine research. Over the last 14 years she has developed and led novel, collaborative research in large EU and UK funded projects that integrates marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, social science and governance to support management for sustainable ecosystems. Currently she coordinates the EU FP7 Ocean of Tomorrow project VECTORS, participates as a work package leader in EU FP7 Ocean of Tomorrow project DEVOTES, and leads the UK Energy Research Centre’s Energy and Environment Theme funded by the UK Research Council. Melanie Austen was appointed Director of the Bioeconomy Directorate in DG RTD on 16 January 2014. Before this he was the Chef de Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. He has been a European Commission official since 1993. During his career to date he has worked on humanitarian aid assistance programmes in the former Yugoslavia and in Albania, as well as public administration reform in Central and Eastern Europe. He was the Poland country desk officer responsible for the European Commission's Opinion on their application for EU membership. At senior level he was a member of the cabinet of Commissioner David Byrne with responsibility for enlargement, public health and global health security issues. As Head of Strategy for the Commission's food, health and consumers directorate general SANCO, he was responsible for rolling out Regulatory Impact Assessments, modernising stakeholder relations and foresight activities. He was the Chef de Cabinet for the first Bulgarian European Commissioner Meglena Kuneva on Consumer Affairs, where he led an economic empowerment approach to consumer policy and consumer markets including global safety issues. John Bell Cornell has worked at the Stockholm Resilience Centre since 2011, where she coordinates the international Planetary Boundaries Research Network. She is a lead author of the Arctic Council funded Arctic Resilience Report, and part of the joint SRC/Stockholm Environment Institute ARR secretariat. She is currently a Vice President and Trustee of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, an international professional institute that uniquely takes a multidisciplinary, sectoral perspective. Dr Cornell has a background in marine and atmospheric chemistry, earning her PhD in 1996 from the University of East Anglia. She moved into interdisciplinary global change research in 2000, first at the UK's Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change. She has served as an advisor on sustainability matters to national and local government, universities, businesses, and civil society organisations. Sarah 1 spent most of his carrier as marine biologist in charge of fisheries and aquaculture research in France then in the European Commission. He acted first as scientific officer in DG MARE (former DG Fish) where he was in charge of following FP projects funded in the field of the interactions between fisheries, aquaculture and the environment. He moved to DG RTD in 2009 where he was nominated Head of sector fisheries and aquaculture in Directorate E Biotechnologies, Agriculture and Food. He was in particular coordinating the FP7 “The Ocean of Tomorrow” calls. He has recently been appointed as Deputy Head of the new Marine Resources Unit in Directorate RTD/F – Bioeconomy. Jacques Fuchs is a senior scientist at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and coordinator of the Damocles Integrated Project (2005-2010) and Search for Damocles SSA (2006-2010). He also participates in the European projects ATP and ACoBAR. Jean-Claude Gascard started working in polar oceanography in 1976 in the Labrador Sea in cooperation with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Dartmouth, Canada) and contributed to the Marginal Ice Zone international Experiment (MIZEX) in 1983-1984. He has contributed to several major polar programs funded by the European Union such as the European Subpolar Ocean Program (ESOP 1 and ESOP 2) from 1993 until 1998, MAIA (Monitoring the Atlantic Inflow towards the Arctic) from 2000 until 2002 and ASOF (Arctic- Subarctic Ocean Fluxes) which started in 2003 and ended in 2005. He is past chairman of the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (AOSB) and was member of the IASC steering committee in charge of the preparation of the International Conference for Arctic Research Program ICARP II in 2005. He was convenor of a polar session dedicated to Pan-Arctic long term variability at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly in 2003, 2004 and 2005. His main interest concerns the interactions between subtropical and polar water masses leading to the formation of deep and abyssal waters (deep convection), thermohaline circulation, air-sea-ice interactions and the implication of the Arctic Ocean in Climate variabilityand Global Changes. Jean-Claude Gascard is a marine global biogeochemical modeller. In his PhD and habilitation thesis (Max Planck Institute of Meteorology and University of Hamburg) he focused on the role of the marine carbon and silicon cycles within the climate system. He is professor in chemical oceanography at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Bergen in Norway. He leads the Research Group on Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. He is head of the Norwegian nationally coordinated project EVA on Earth system modelling of climate variations in the Anthropocene. He currently leads the EU FP7 large-scale integrating project CARBOCHANGE, both aiming at a best possible quantification of anthropogenic carbon dioxide uptake by the oceans. He has worked as a scientist in Germany, Denmark, and Norway, and has been visiting scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO, USA) as well as the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE, France). He is steering committee member of the IGBP core project SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study). Christoph Heinze 2 is Research Director and Head of the Functional and Evolutionary Ecology Department at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy (http://www.szn.it) . Her research interests include exploring the biotechnological applications of microalgal secondary metabolites as pharmaceuticals. Editorial Board Member of several journals including PloSONE and Frontiers in Marine Biotechnology, she is also the author of 92 Web of Science publications and co-author of Marine Board-ESF Position Paper 15: Marine Biotechnology: A New Vision and Strategy for Europe (2010). She participates in the following current projects: PHARMASEA FP7 project KBBE.2012.3.2-01: Innovative marine biodiscovery pipelines for novel industrial products (http://www.pharma-sea.eu); 3 Italian National Industry-Driven Projects (PON01) coordinated by Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics srl, Sanofi S.p.A and BIOGEM Scarl. Adrianna Ianora is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen. He consults for a number of UK marine biotechnology companies and sits on the Industrial Biotechnology Sector group of the Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, and has led scientific missions to Japan/US/New Zealand. He was part of the ESF Working Group that prepared the position paper “Marine Biotechnology: A New Vision and Strategy for Europe” (2010). Marcel Jaspars founded the interdisciplinary Marine Biodiscovery Centre, a £1.6 M investment to focus on marine resources for novel pharmaceuticals, and to investigate fundamental questions in chemical ecology and biosynthesis. The Centre contains facilities for chemistry, chromatography, spectroscopy, molecular genetics and microbiology. Marcel leads the PharmaSea EU FP7 consortium (EUR 9.5 M, 24 partners from 14 countries) which aims to make the use of marine microbial derived compounds a more attractive proposition to the pharmaceutical industry. The microbes are obtained from extreme environments, in particular hadal trenches, cryogenic environments and thermal vents. Marcel Jaspars obtained his first degree in Biology from the University of Athens followed by a Ph.D. degree on Marine Biology from University of Swansea (UK). He is currently Research Director of the Institute of Oceanography in the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), in Greece, being also the Director (2003-2006) and Acting Director (2009-2012) of the Institute in HCMR. He has worked for more than 30 years in the fields of ecotoxicology, marine biology and ecology and has long experience in international marine policy and management. His current work focuses on marine research as well as on policy-relevant marine research in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Recently, he was involved in expeditions and research work in the Red Sea. He was the Greek representative member of Environment Committees of DG research for the 5th FP and 6th FP. He is currently the Greek representative of the “Climate Action, Resource Efficiency and Raw materials” Committee of the Horizon2020. He was the Coordinator of the SSA European program IASON, and SESAME-IP (2006-2011). He is currently leading the European project PERSEUS (20122015), with 53 partners from 21 countries, aiming at helping the implementation of Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in the Mediterranean and the Black Seas Vangelis Papathanassiou 3 was born in Bremen, Germany. In 2001 she achieved her Diploma in Geology/Paleontology with main focus on Geochemistry and Hydrology at the University of Bremen, Germany. Subsequently, she was appointed as a graduate researcher (PhDstudent) at the Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences. She successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Diagenetic and Paleoceanographic variations in sedimentary Mn, Ba, and CaCO3, with emphasis on the eastern Mediterranean sapropel S1’ in 2005. From 2005 to 2011 she worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the geochemical related research unit Marine Geosystems at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany on the source and genesis of deep sources fluids. Since 2011 she is appointed as scientific manager of a large-scale collaborative EU FP7 ‘The Ocean of Tomorrow’ project (ECO2) at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. Anja Reitz became in 2010 the first Professor of Marine Governance and Environmental Science. Based at Newcastle University in England, she leads international teams in building robust science to improve impacts of marine management on the livelihoods of people dependent on the sea. Selina leads the interdisciplinary research on governance and socioeconomics in the FP7 FORCE project (http://www.force-project.eu ). She is a member of the Advisory Board for the VECTORS project. Professor Stead has senior appointments as the Chair (2014-2016) of the Scottish Government’s Marine Science Advisory Board (2010-2016) and is an invited member of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture (Cefas) Science Advisory Committee (2013-2017). Selina Stead was President of the European Aquaculture Society between 2008 and 2010. Prof. Stead also serves on: North Eastern Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authority and the ICES socio-economics aquaculture working group. Current research projects include governance of coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean, small-scale fisheries in the UK, Oman and the Philippines, sea cucumber biology in South Africa, Marine Protected Areas in Thailand, piracy in Kuwait and Somalia etc. Selina Stead Luis Valdés Santurio is, since January 2009, the Head of Ocean Sciences at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. Between 2000 and 2009 he was Director of the Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón - Instituto Español de Oceanografía (CO Gijón-IEO). With more than 30 years of experience in marine research and field studies related to marine ecology and climate change, he has in 1990 established the time series programme based on ocean sampling sites and marine observatories which is maintained by Spain in the North Atlantic (www.seriestemporales-ieo.com). He has also advised various governmental, intergovernmental and international organizations as well as research funding agencies. He has a vast experience in ICES where he has chaired different Working Groups and Committees including the Oceanographic Committee. He also served as Spanish Delegate in ICES and in the IOC-UNESCO. Jorge 4 graduated 1981 as naval architect summa cum laude in Berlin Technical University and served later in various executive industrial functions, e.g. 1989-93 as Managing Director of Schwarting Biogas (D), 1993-2001 as Sales Director of Abeking & Rasmussen Ship+Yachtbuilders (D), 2002-3 as Managing Director of Kvaerner Warnow Werft in Rostock (D), 2003-2008 as Senior Vice President of Aker Yards’ Group Management in Oslo (NOR), at this time the largest European Shipbuilding Group, and 2008-9 as CTO and Member of the Board of Wadan Yards, Oslo (NOR), a Russian-Korean joint venture and Aker spin-off. Since January 2010 Michael vom Baur works exclusively for his own consultancy business MvB euroconsult. In this framework he started service as interim manager in Hoppe Marine GmbH, Hamburg (D), a consultancy client, in August 2013. During 2003-2007 Michael vom Baur was elected Chairman of COREDES, the permanent R+D-Working Group of the former European Shipbuilders Association CESA. In this function he was one of the builders of the WATERBORNE European Technology Platform. Michael vom Baur holds a PhD in Marine Microbiology from the University of Kiel, having focussed on degradation of man-made chemicals in the marine environment. Since 1993 she has worked primarily in the marine and maritime private sectors as consultant for environmental, quality and safety issues, and then as project manager and EU liaison for the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. Besides dealing with environmental aspects of ports and shipping she has enhanced the use of scientific results by international stakeholders from environmental agencies, industry and NGOs. In 2005 she started the Environmental & Marine Project Management Agency, EMPA Bremen. As managing director she and EMPA’s staff support diverse research projects with an increasing focus on marine biotechnology and genomics. Dissemination tasks are performed in targeted stakeholder-specific ways, e.g. through organising think-tank sessions trainings and workshops, as well as through audiovisual material. Johanna Wesnigk manages the FP7-project Micro B3 where she is in charge of training and dissemination. Micro B3 focuses on the potential of marine micro-organisms to understand ecological cycles and provide knowledge for biotechnological applications. The project integrates legal and ethical, multidisciplinary and cross-cutting elements. Johanna Wesnigk is senior scientist at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples (Italy), where she is employed since 1989. She is the Scientific Coordinator of the Long Term Ecological Research program at the plankton research site MareChiara (LTER-MC) in the Gulf of Naples (http://szn.macisteweb.com/), which takes part to LTER-Europe, LTERInternational and the Genomic Observatories (GOs) networks. She has been the Chair of the IOC-UNESCO Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms from 1995 to 2002. Her main interest is the diversity and ecology of marine microalgae and the endogenous and exogenous factors driving their dynamics at different time and space scales. Her research focuses on phytoplankton variations under changing environmental conditions and includes detailed studies on selected species or species-groups, e.g., the most relevant primary producers and potentially harmful species. Taxonomic research on these organisms is complemented by physiological and molecular studies, including the recent Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) approaches, aimed at improving the resolution of ecological studies and the knowledge of the functional role of microalgal diversity. Her research has led to the description of ca 20 new microalgal species and to the publication of about 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Adriana Zingone 5