Colin Devey
Oceanic Volcanism – Research Division “Dynamics of the Ocean Floor”, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Oceanic Volcanism – Research Division “Dynamics of the Ocean Floor”, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Professor Deyey was born in 1961 in the village of Holmfirth in North England. He studied geology at the University of London, Royal School of Mines and got his PhD in 1986 from the University of Oxford.
During a subsequent post-doctoral visit to the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques in Nancy, France, where Devey had his first encounter with marine science, completely by chance being able to participate in a cruise with the German research vessel “Sonne” around Tahiti. This led him to a job at the University of Kiel where he stayed for 10 years.
In 1998 Devey was appointed Professor for the Petrology of the Ocean Crust at the University of Bremen, a position he held for 6 years until returning to Kiel and the then Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, now Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research GEOMAR.
Colin Devey has, since his first cruise, participated in over 30 marine science research cruises, the vast majority as Chief Scientist.
CEO and founder, The Ocean Data Alliance and Pre-Vetted Digital Transformation Crisis Consultant, UNDP
Ocean Physical Modelling Program Manager, ARGANS France, and Senior Earth Observation Scientist, ICM-CSIC
Officer in Charge/Head of the Department of Environment and Climate Change, Indian Ocean Commission
Head of Department Marine Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Postdoctoral Researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Oceanic Volcanism – Research Division “Dynamics of the Ocean Floor”, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Professor in Oceanography, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) UNAM
Head of Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Project Manager of “FACE-IT” at the Department of Marine Botany, University of Bremen, Germany
Director of State Key Lab. of Marine Pollution, Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong
Clara Manno, Pelagic Marine Ecologist at BAS and co chair, SCAR Plastic in the Polar Environments Working Group
Chair, PAME, the Arctic Council’s work on Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
Research Scientist, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Head of “Provision for the Future – Basic Research and Research for Sustainable Development”, BMBF
Science Director, REV Ocean, and Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, University of Oxford
Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University & Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Chair, United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection