Prof, Dr. Ann Vanreusel is head of the research group Marine Biology of Ghent University (BE). She's an expert in benthos research with a focus on meiofauna (nematodes) . Ann Vanreusel has focused her most recent research on the ecology of extreme marine environments including abyssal ecosystems in…

Dr Sandor Mulsow is a Chilean professor of marine geology. From 2013 to 2019 he was head of the Office of Environmental Management and Mineral Resources at the International Seabed Authority (ISA). He is currently working on promoting GeoEthics in Marine Sciences specially in Deep sea Mining. Tapho…

Sarah Vanden Eede works at WWF Belgium as the Oceans & Fisheries Policy Officer. She graduated as a Master in Biology (University of Leuven) and in 2007 as a Master in Advanced Studies in Marine and Lacustrine Sciences (University of Ghent). Her main interests lie in marine and coastal spatial …

Alanna Matamaru Smith is Director of Te Ipukarea Society (TIS), an environmental NGO based in the cook islands. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Management from Otago University New Zealand, and a Masters in Conservation Biology from Victoria University, New Zealand. Through …

Dr. Steven Degraer started his scientific career in benthic ecology of intertidal and shallow subtidal temperate marine ecosystems at Ghent University. After his PhD research (Ghent University, 1999), he started broadening his research: from temperate to tropical ecosystems, from sandy to rocky coa…

Greet Brauwers (BE) is a journalist, researcher, filmmaker and artist. She is the author of several documentaries including 'Bruxelles-Kinshasa', 'Do You Copy Me?', 'Torture in Baraka', 'Marrying across the border' and 'Everyone migrant'. The documentary 'Lithium, curse or blessing for Bolivia' wa…

Raf Custers (Brussels, BE) is historian, writer, doc-maker, singer-performer and journalist. Recently he initiated public interventions ‘ChoeurFew’ and ‘BROcean-Zeemonster’. He participated in Bru(i)tal and the musical performances ‘What happened to the dead fish’ (2021, kfda), ‘Melancholy at the …

The Master's programme in Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management Oceans & Lakes is an interuniversity programme organized by the Faculty of Sciences of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Free University of Brussels), Universiteit Antwerpen (UAntwerpen, Antwerp University) and Universiteit G…