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Adam Gauci
Lecturer in the Department of Geosciences
University of Malta
Dr Adam Gauci is a data scientist at the Oceanography Malta Research Group. He has been involved in a number of projects including the setting up of the CALYPSO HF Radar System to monitor in real-time sea surface currents across the Malta Channel, as well as the installation of a number of meteo-marine observation stations around the Maltese islands. Adam obtained his Ph.D. with the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems at the University of Malta with research on the applications of Machine Learning techniques on mega-dimensional datasets. When not chasing mermaids, he lectures with the Department of Geosciences within the Faculty of Science.
Aldo Drago
University of Malta
Prof. Aldo Drago, is currently the Co-Ordinator of the Physical Oceanography Research Group (PO-Res. Grp., ex Physical Oceanography Unit, PO-Unit) within the Department of Geosciences. The PO-Res.Grp undertakes oceanographic research, in a holistic perspective, including operational marine observations and forecasts, specialised data management analysis and participation in international cooperative research ventures. The PO-Res.Grp promotes activities in operational oceanography with the installation and maintenance of permanent sea monitoring systems, and the provision of meteo-marine forecasts and related downstream services. Under his direction, the PO-Res.Grp has strengthened its activities, know-how and capability through the participation in several EU funded regional and pan-European scientific projects, INTERREG and MED Programme projects
Aleksandra Dudkowska
Department of Mechanics and Coastal Engineering at the Institute of Hydro-Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Dr. Aleksandra Dudkowska graduated in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Gdańsk. She completed her PhD in Theoretical Physics, related to the modelling of complex systems. Until 2023, she was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography at the University of Gdańsk, and from 2020 to 2023, she served as the head of the Department of Physical Oceanography. Her scientific interests revolve around physics, oceanography, and coastal engineering. Currently, she works at the Department of Mechanics and Coastal Engineering at the Institute of Hydro-Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, she is involved with physical oceanography, in particular sea dynamics, modelling of waves, sea currents and sediment transport. She also works as a scientific expert, preparing expertise and managing projects related to offshore wind energy or hydrodynamic monitoring of the Hel Peninsula.
Aleksandra Cupiał
University of Gdansk
Aleksandra Cupiał is a lecturer at the Division of Physical Oceanography at the University of Gdańsk. As a part of her PhD she is working on long-term hindcasts of wind wave data from the Baltic Sea. Her focus is on the severe wave events in selected areas of the Baltic as well as on the relation of these phenomena to the changing climate. She is involved in a project that aims to increase the digital availability of the oceanographic data for the Baltic Sea.
Alfredo Izquierdo Gonzalez
Associate Professor in Physical Oceanography
University of Cádiz
Graduate and Master of Science in Physical Oceanography at the Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation (1994). PhD in Marine Sciences at the University of Cádiz, Spain (2000). I enjoy the Ocean in its complex diversity: From climate to small-scale processes, I like all applications of Oceanography to solve different tasks. Modelling is a beautiful tool to work with.
Flavio Martins
University of Algarve
Flávio Martins is “Professor Coordenador” at the engineering school of University of Algarve. He has more than 30 years of experience in research and consultant activities. The focus of his research is on Mathematical Modelling. Main topics are: Operational modelling, hydrodynamics of coastal and oceanic regions and estuaries, water pollution, water quality, climate change and sediment transport.
Frano Matić
Associate Professor at the Department of Marine Studies
University of Split
Frano Matić is a physical oceanographer at the Department of Marine Studies. Prof. Matić specializes in neural networks, air-sea interaction and climate variability. Currently, his focus is on the project: Software Sensor Augmentation at Environmental Data Analysis Laboratory.
Gabriela Gic-Grusza
University of Gdansk
Detail-oriented technical writer, business analyst and oceanographer, with scientific background.
Hrvoje Kalinić
Associate professor at the Faculty of Science
University of Split
Hrvoje Kalinić, PhD El.Eng., graduated on thesis related to image analysis and biomedical data processing. As an associate professor at the University of Split he teaches courses related to data science and machine learning. He is involved in several scientific projects and leads a project SSA@EDAL funded by the Croatian Science Foundation.
Jadranka Šepić
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science
University of Split
Jadranka Šepić is an associate professor at the University of Split where she teaches Introductory geophysics and meteorology courses. Prof. Šepić specializes in research of extreme sea levels, in particular the high-frequency ones. She is currently leading the ERC-Starting Grant Project SHExtreme focused ar research of the European extreme sea levels in present and future climates.
Jan-Bart Calewaert
Head of EMODnet Secretariat
Jan-Bart Calewaert is a Bioscience Engineer and holds a Master’s degree in Ecological Marine Management. He worked for more than 20 years as science officer, project manager and project coordinator, initially at Flanders Marine Institute, the Maritime Institute and Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology (both Ghent University) and at the European Marine Board (2007-2013). Throughout his career, he has coordinated high-level collaborative activities in European context at the interface between marine science, policy and society. For the Maritime Institute, he coordinated the Belgian Science Policy Cluster SUMANOS (Sustainable Management of the North Sea) dealing with multi-disciplinary policy support research projects among others related the Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP). He coordinated multi-partner and multi-disciplinary Expert Working Groups delivering European Marine Board position papers on a range of topics from biotechnology to marine microbial diversity, coordinated EMB’s work in selected EU-projects, and has organised many marine and maritime events from workshops to large conferences. He joined Seascape Consultants in 2013 to coordinate the EMODnet Secretariat activities and drive progress towards developing a more efficient, effective, fit-for-purpose EMODnet which is better known and more widely used. Since 2017, Jan-Bart Calewaert is also Managing Director of Seascape Belgium leading a professional team of dedicated marine science and data specialist.
Jesús Gómez-Enri
University of Cadiz
My name is Jesús Gómez-Enri, Ph.D. on Satellite Oceanography (Altimetry). I have a Degree/Master of Science in Marine Sciences (1991 – 1996). I was a Graduate Fellow at ESRIN-ESA, Frascati (Rome-Italy) (June 1999 – June 2001). After my Ph.D., I was an ESA-Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (U.K.), from Nov. 2003 to Nov. 2005. After that, I worked as a Research Associate at the Faculty of Marine Sciences (UCA). My present position is Associate Professor (since 2015). As a researcher, I have more than 20 years of experience as a satellite oceanographer. I am fully committed to the study of the oceans, with a marine science background. I also have a strong background regarding satellite data collection, data format, and fusion.
Joel Azzopardi
Senior lecturer in the Department of AI
University of Malta
Dr. Joel Azzopardi is a full-time resident academic at the Department of AI within the University of Malta (Faculty of ICT). He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics, and Computer Science & AI in 2004, and later obtained his Ph.D. in Intelligent Computer Systems in 2012. His PhD involved the analysis and processing of unstructured news reports text to perform fusion of news reports, summarisation and personalised recommendations. His main research interests are knowledge discovery, data and text mining, big data, and information retrieval. He has substantial experience in the harvesting and processing of open data, including environmental numeric data, as well as textual government data (such as Parliamentary Questions). Joel has been collaborating with the Physical Oceanography Research Group and its predecessor, the PO-Unit, since 2004. He was involved in a number of national as well as European research projects in which the University of Malta was a partner. As part of this collaboration, Joel assisted in the setup of various operational systems, including both models as well as observation systems, related to applied oceanography.
Julia Gottschalk
Professor at the Institute of Geosciences
CAU Kiel
Julia Gottschalk is Professor for Marine Geology and Paleoceanography at the Institute of Geosciences at Kiel University, Germany. Her research interests include studying past global carbon cycle changes as well as climate and ocean dynamics of the polar regions of the last 3.5 million years based on siliciclastic material and microfossils obtained from marine sediment cores. She obtains sample material for her research through oceanographic expeditions, including those involving large drill ships such as the Joides Resolution. Having been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, she completed her PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge (UK) on oceanic mechanisms governing atmospheric CO2 variations in the past. She has performed post-doctoral research projects at the Oeschger Center for Climate Change at the University of Bern, Switzerland and at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University of the City of New York in the US – the latter with the help of a DFG Global Research Fellowship.
Peer Kröger
CAU Kiel
Professor of Information Systems at Kiel University. Previously professor and director of the Data Science Lab at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich). 2004: Doctoral degree, 2009: Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) at LMU.
Peter Pissierssens
IODE
Peter Pissierssens is the Head of the IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium since 2007, with nearly 25 years of experience in project management related to ocean data and information exchange. After research and field experience in Belgium and Kenya, he moved to UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Headquarters in Paris, France in 1992 taking responsibility for marine information management activities, followed by data management, bathymetry and tsunami warning and mitigation. As the Head of the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende, Peter is in charge of the IODE Secretariat which hosts the global headquarters of the OceanTeacher Global Academy (a training centre network for ocean data and information management), and secretariat of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS).
Ralph Schneider
Professor fuer Geologie-Palaeontologie, Marine Palaeoklimaforschung
University of Kiel
Professor Ralph Schneider is a marine geologist and climate researcher. He holds various offices at Kiel University: He is the director of the Institute of Geosciences, where he heads the Paleooceanography and Paleoclimate workgroup. He is also the head of the Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Stable Isotope Research and director of the Kiel Marine Science (KMS) priority research area, which he co-founded and has led since 2011.
Sally Close
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Sally is a lecturer in the Department of Physics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale and a member of the Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale at the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer. Research interests include ocean-atmosphere-cryosphere interaction, polar oceanography, intrinsic variability and statistical approaches.
Tomás Fernández Montblanc
Associate Professor University of Cadiz
After the graduation in Marine Sciences in the University of Cádiz, I got the Master degree in Integrated Coastal Zone Management (University of Cantabria), the Master degree in Integrated Water Management, and the PhD in Marine Sciences (University of Cadiz). I am currently teaching in the University of Cádiz, my research interest covers numerical modelling and its application to the coastal hazard, morphodynamic/coastal process, and underwater cultural heritage.
Wojciech Brodziński
University of Gdansk
M.Sc. in astronomy, in 2020 I obtained a PhD degree in physics. My research activities focused on numerical modelling and analysis of the investigated physical processes in order to obtain a better description and understanding of the underlying physics. Since December 2020 I have been working at the University of Gdansk in the Division of Physical Oceanography and presently I’m engaging in the topic of satellite remote sensing for marine applications.
Žarko Kovač
Associate professor at the Faculty of Science
University of Split
Žarko Kovač is an associate professor at the University of Split where he teaches oceanography and modelling courses. Prof. Kovač specializes in ecological modelling with a strong focus on primary production modelling. He is currently enrolled in a number of scientific, as well as educational projects.
Audrey Zammit
Scientific officer in the Department of Geosciences
University of Malta
Audrey Zammit has been working with the Oceanography Malta Research Group since 2015. She is responsible for the management of data generated as a result of the activities of the Group, particularly ensuring that this is made available to stakeholders and the general public in a user-friendly manner by creating back-end processes that are designed to make efficient use of the available resources. She is also a SEA-EU Open Science Ambassador and a member of The Institution of Analysts and Programmers.
David Ramirez
Research Support Officer Department of Geosciences
University of Malta
Graduated in Architecture from the University La Gran Colombia, has a rich and comprehensive background in community design and content creation, since January, he has played a pivotal role at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Malta, David is responsible for content creation, outreach, citizen science campaigns, and dissemination. his role underscores his versatility and commitment to both structural design and scientific community engagement.