Angelika Brandt
Head of Department Marine Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Professor Angelika Brandt studied biology and education at the University of Oldenburg. She became full professor at the University of Hamburg in 1995 at the Zoological Museum and curator of the Department Invertebrates II. Since 2003, she has either been deputy director or director of the Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg. In 2017, she started at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum and is the head of the Marine Zoology department and of the Crustacea and Ichthyology sections.
Brandt focuses on the systematics, ecology and evolution of peracarid crustaceans with a focus on Isopoda from deep-sea and polar habitats. As part of the Census of the Marine Life, she was involved in the Antarctic and deep-sea field projects CAML and CeDAMar. Her work documented the high levels of biodiversity of Southern Ocean deep-sea invertebrates. In recent years, her research interests have concentrated on the identification of drivers of evolution in the deep sea, such as dispersal barriers, as well as on advancing deep-sea sampling methodologies. She is active in deep-sea research NW Pacific and Southern Ocean but also interested in biodiversity of the World Oceans. She has joined or led 29 expeditions.
A Clean Ocean: Speakers & Moderators
Steven Adler
CEO and founder, The Ocean Data Alliance and Pre-Vetted Digital Transformation Crisis Consultant, UNDP
Manuel Arias
Ocean Physical Modelling Program Manager, ARGANS France, and Senior Earth Observation Scientist, ICM-CSIC
Gina Bonne
Officer in Charge/Head of the Department of Environment and Climate Change, Indian Ocean Commission
Angelika Brandt
Head of Department Marine Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Laura Cimoli
Postdoctoral Researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Colin Devey
Oceanic Volcanism – Research Division “Dynamics of the Ocean Floor”, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Elva Escobar Briones
Professor in Oceanography, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) UNAM
Judith Gobin
Head of Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Simon Jungblut
Project Manager of “FACE-IT” at the Department of Marine Botany, University of Bremen, Germany
Kenneth M. Y. Leung
Director of State Key Lab. of Marine Pollution, Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong
Clara Manno
Clara Manno, Pelagic Marine Ecologist at BAS and co chair, SCAR Plastic in the Polar Environments Working Group
Jessica Nilsson
Chair, PAME, the Arctic Council’s work on Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
Torben Riehl
Research Scientist, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Volker Rieke
Head of “Provision for the Future – Basic Research and Research for Sustainable Development”, BMBF
Alex David Rogers
Science Director, REV Ocean, and Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, University of Oxford
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Tanja Stratmann
Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University & Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
David Vousden
Chair, United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection