Jialin Zhang
Knowledge exchange specialist & project manager, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Germany
Dr. Jialin Zhang studied ecology at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) and received her Ph.D. in 2014.
Following this, she worked at different international conservation organizations, such as Fauna & Flora International and the Wildlife Conservation Society. She is now working at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research and is primarily engaged with a Sino-German collaboration project.
Zhang’s work aims to promote the connection between science and society through different ways of measuring stakeholder engagement.
Speakers & Moderators
Kristin Burmeister
Postdoctoral Researcher in Physical Oceanography, Scottish Association of Marine Science (SAMS), UK
Angelika Dummermuth
Science Manager, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
Karen Evans
Principal Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Britta Knefelkamp
Head of Department “Marine Nature Conservation”, German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany
Lilian Anne Krug
Scientific Coordinator, Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean & NF-POGO Alumni Network for the Ocean, Portugal
Nelson A. Lagos
Director, Centro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático, Universidad Santo Tomás, Chile
Aisa O. Manlosa
Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
Natalie Prinz
Doctoral Assistant, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Subrata Sarker
Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
Sophie Seeyave
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean, United Kingdom
Alexander Turra
Coordinator, UNESCO Chair on Ocean Sustainability (Brazil) and Full Professor, IOUSP, Brazil
Karen Wiltshire
Vice Director, Alfred Wegener Institute & Director, Biological Station Helgoland, Germany
Jialin Zhang
Knowledge exchange specialist & project manager, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Germany
Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade
Deputy Director, International Tsunami Information Center, Caribbean Office, Puerto Rico
Jeanne Izard Everett
Director Programs and Operations, Blue Climate Initiative, Tetiaroa Society, USA
Oda Keppler
Deputy Director-General „Sustainability, Provision for the Future“ of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
Claudia Schultz
Research Associate, Project Management Jülich, Marine and Maritime Research, Geosciences and Shipping (MGS), Bonn
Renate Duckat
Science Journalist at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Project Management Jülich, Bonn, Germany