Dr. Valeria Ana Guinder is a Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). She leads the Microbial Plankton Group at the Argentine Institute of Oceanography (IADO) in Bahía Blanca. She has participated in numerous national and international oceanographic programs. Her research focuses on phytoplankton biodiversity, bloom dynamics, and harmful algal blooms in the Argentine Sea and the Southwest Atlantic. She integrates field sampling, biogeochemical analyses, remote sensing, and modeling to investigate ocean productivity and ecosystem functioning at meso- and submesoscales.
Valeria mentors Ph.D. students and postgraduates. She holds a Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Argentina, and has completed research stays at marine institutes in Germany, Brazil, and Chile. Dr. Guinder was a Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). As part of the Falkor (too) expedition “A Tale of Two Submarine Canyons,” she is studying phytoplankton communities through taxonomic and functional analyses, pigment and toxin profiling, bio-optical properties, and microbial genetic diversity. Her research explores how canyon–current interactions shape nutrient fluxes and bloom dynamics along the Argentine Continental Margin.
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