Sabine Gollner is a deep-sea biologist working at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), in the Netherlands. Her research interests include the ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents and abyssal plains. She investigates deep-sea faunal biodiversity, population connectivity, and faunal community response patterns to disturbance and stress. She participated in the projects MIDAS (Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation) and Mining Impact (Environmental Impacts and Risks of Deep-Sea Mining) and is co-lead of the minerals working group of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative.