Laura Alonso Sáez

Marine Research Unit
lalonso@azti.es

AZTI and RyC
Principal Investigator (PI) of MER-CLUB Project

Role in MER-CLUB

WP1,WP2, WP3 and WP5.

Profile

PhD in Marine Sciences with specialization in Marine Microbial Ecology.
Ramón y Cajal (RyC) posdoctoral grant at AZTI. Focused in metabolic, single-cell and molecular analyses including -Omics approaches, in the study of the diversity of marine microorganisms and their role in ecosystem functioning.

ResearchGate profile

Anders Lanzén

Marine Research Unit
alanzen@azti.es

AZTI and IKERBASQUE

https://www.azti.es/equipo/anders-lanzen/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anders_Lanzen

Role in MER-CLUB

WP2 and WP3

Profile

PhD in Biology (University of Bergen, Norway)
IKERBASQUE research fellow at the Marine Research Division of AZTI. Fifteen years of experience from environmental and traditional genomics, bioinformatics, and marine microbial ecology.

Mónica Estupiñán

Marine Research Unit
mestupinan@azti.es

AZTI

https://www.azti.es/equipo/monica-estupinan-romero/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Monica_Estupinan
https://es.linkedin.com/in/monica-estupi%C3%B1an-romero

Role in MER-CLUB

WP1, WP3 and WP6

Profile

PhD in Biotechnology, with specialization in Microbial Biotechnology. My main research lines are the isolation and characterization of new environmental strains and/or enzymes for industrial and environmental applications.

Blanca Rincón-Tomás

Marine Research Unit/Institute for General Microbiology

AZTI and Kiel University
brincontomas@ifam.uni-kiel.de

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Blanca_Rincon_Tomas

https://es.linkedin.com/in/blanca-rincon-tomas-56025346

Role in MER-CLUB

WP3

Profile

PhD in Geomicrobiology, specialized symbiotic adaption of chemosynthetic organisms in cold-seeps.
Experienced in working with extremophiles and biomineralization processes.

https://twitter.com/microblanca?lang=es

Silvia G.Acinas

Ecology of Marine Microbes
sacinas@icm.csic.es

Institut de Cièncias Marinas – CSIC
https://emm.icm.csic.es/member/silvia-g-acinas/

https://es.linkedin.com/in/silvia-acinas-7b5b3374

Role in MER-CLUB

WP2 and WP3

Profile

Focusing on linking microbial genetic diversity with functional capacities of ecologically relevant marine microbial taxa using metagenomics, metranscriptomics, single cell genomics and isolation.

https://twitter.com/acinasl

Andrea G. Bravo

Ecology of Marine Microbes
andrea.bravo@icm.csic.es

Institut de Cièncias Marinas – CSIC and RyC

https://emm.icm.csic.es/member/andrea-garcia-bravo/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Bravo

Role in MER-CLUB

WP2 and WP4

Profile

PhD in Environmental Sciences, specialized in mercury biogeochemistry.
Experience with the chemical analyses of trace elements, sediment geochemical characterization, cultures of microorganisms and microbial ecology.

https://agbravo.weebly.com/

Stefan Bertilsson

Functional Ecology of Freswater Ecosystems

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
stefan.bertilsson@slu.se

https://www.slu.se/en/ew-cv/stefan-bertilsson/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefan_Bertilsson

Role in MER-CLUB

WP2, WP3 and WP5

Profile

PhD and Professor in Functional Ecology. Experienced aquatic microbial ecologist with special expertise in environmental genomics, single cell methods and biogeochemical processing of carbon, nitrogen, mercury and other elements in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Director for the Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science and founder and director of the SciLifeLab Microbial Single cell Genomics Facility.

Olga Sánchez

Department of Genetics and Microbiology

Universitat de Barcelona (UAB)
olga.sanchez@uab.es

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olga_Sanchez2

Role in MER-CLUB

WP4

Profile

PhD in Biological Sciences, specialized in Microbial Ecology. Interested in understanding the diversity and function of microbial communities in natural or engineered systems, by combining conventional isolation techniques with molecular tools.

David Amoroux

IPREM Research Unit

Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA)/CNRS
david.amouroux@univ-pau.fr

https://iprem.univ-pau.fr/fr/iprem/membres/cv_-damourou-fr.html
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Amouroux

Role in MER-CLUB

WP4 and WP5

Profile

CNRS Senior Scientist, Pau, France
PhD in Chemistry, specialty: Environmental and Analytical Chemistry.
Research expert on the speciation, reactivity and cycling of mercury, selenium and other metal(loid)s in aquatic environments.

Ulrich Soltmann

Functional Coatings

GMBU
soltmann@gmbu.de

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ulrich-Soltmann

Role in MER-CLUB

WP5

Profile

PhD in Biology and group manager. Expert in sol-gel immobilization of bioactive substances, biomolecules and microorganisms, coatings to promote or prevent biofilm formation, antimicrobial coatings, catalytic active coatings and adsorptive filters for the removal of heavy metals, rare earths or radionuclides.