Dr. Giulia La Bianca (pronounced: ˈdʒuːliə) is a benthic ecologist currently working at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) in the UK. Her expertise lies in benthic ecology, deep-sea fauna identification, habitat suitability modelling, and assessing ecosystem services. At PML, she focuses on using artificial intelligence to accelerate species identification from underwater footage. Her work ensures high-quality standards in identifying benthic epifauna from images, with her identification skills primarily centred on marine benthic epifauna of the Northeast Atlantic.
Giulia completed her PhD at the University of Plymouth (UK), where she explored innovative techniques to map the distribution of deep-sea ecosystem services. Her research has taken her on extensive research cruises across both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. She is thrilled to join Ocean Census on this research cruise, collaborating with leading deep-sea scientists and, perhaps, even discovering species new to science.
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