Francisca Oyanadel is an undergraduate student studying Marine Biology at the Faculty of Marine Sciences of the Universidad Católica del Norte (FCM-UCN) and is currently completing her thesis at the Center for Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands (ESMOI). She develops his research in the Biological Collections Room of the Universidad Católica del Norte … Continued
Jan Maximiliano F. Tapia Guerra is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile. He specializes in the taxonomy and ecology of deep-sea fauna, with a particular focus on organisms inhabiting remote island habitats and seamounts in deep-sea environments. His primary research centers on characterising the benthic habitats and fauna of the … Continued
Macarena Pozo Rodríguez is an undergraduate student of Marine Biology at the Marine Sciences Faculty of the Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN), in which she has developed interests in macroalgae and oceanography. Currently, she is developing her thesis on the “Effect of desiccation on the physiological and reproductive viability of the macroalga Durvillaea incurvata and … Continued
Maritza Castro Contreras is a Marine Biologist from the Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile (FCM-UCN) and completed her undergraduate thesis with the Center for Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands and Sala de Colección Biologicas (SCBUCN). Her research focuses on the ecology and conservation of sea pens from the seamounts of the Southeast Pacific … Continued
Nicolás Luna Bravo, a marine biologist and ornithologist, is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Natural Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Zu Kiel, Germany, focusing on the foraging behavior of seabirds using telemetry devices and its correlation with climate change. With a Master’s in Marine Sciences and a Bachelor’s in Marine Biology, he has extensive experience studying … Continued
Germán Zapata Hernández currently is working as Postdoctoral Researcher in the Genoa Marine Centre belonging to the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy. His interest involves the biology and ecology of shallow and deep-water benthic environments (e.g., rocky and coral reefs, seagrasses, sediments, seamounts, methane seeps, and fjords). His works integrate biodiversity assessments, community ecology, elements … Continued
Dr Paige Maroni is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the University of Western Australia (UWA). Maroni received her Ph.D. from UWA in 2023 and her undergraduate degree and fist-class Honours degree from Murdoch University in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Since 2016, Maroni has also actively maintained her position as a Research Associate at the Western … Continued
Yakup Niyazi is a Research Fellow – Marine Geoscientist and Hydrographic Surveyor at the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, Australia. Before pursuing an academic career, he worked as an oil field engineer for three years after obtaining his Batchelor degree in Geological Engineering. As a child grew up in a small … Continued
Jorge Pérez-Schultheiss is a marine biologist and crustacean curator at the Invertebrate Zoology Area of the National Museum of Natural History (AZI-MNHNCL), Chile, and a doctoral student at the Post-Graduation Program in Animal Biology, at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Jorge is interested in the field collection, registration and … Continued
María de los Ángeles Gallardo is a Marine Biologist with a PhD in Biology and Applied Ecology. Her research has primarily focused on the study of decapod crustaceans, with an emphasis on taxonomy, ecology, biological oceanogragraphy, biogeography, and ecophysiology. Over the past years, she has developed particular expertise in deep-sea fauna, exploring how environmental gradients … Continued
