Marine ecologist
Speaker
Carlos Duarte
Professor of Marine Sciences at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Kaust (Saudi Arabia)
Carlos Duarte is a marine biologist and one of Spain’s most prominent internationally recognised oceanographers. He is currently immersed in Project 2050 dedicated to the recovery of marine life.
Carlos Duarte is a marine science professor and a leader in many branches of biological oceanography and marine ecology. In the past he has held the positions of assistant professor at the CSIC’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona (1989-1990) and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Blanes (1990-1998) and research professor at the CSIC-Universidad de las Islas Baleares’ Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies in the Balearic Islands (1999-2014).
Carlos Duarte has organised and led the Malaspina Circumnavigation Expedition. He has also worked at the University of Western Australia’s Oceans Institute researching coral reef and he headed the Red Sea Research Centre at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.
Today, alongside researcher Susana Agustí, Duarte heads an international study that brings together the world’s leading marine scientists from across four continents, in 10 countries and 16 universities.
