Oradores Convidados | Invited Speakers
Liangbiao Chen
Dr Liangbiao Chen is a professor at the College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University. He received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, on the strucuture and evolution of antifreeze glycoproteins in polar fishes and has since been researching on the specific and complex details of fish molecular adaptations to thermal challenges. His lab focuses on Antarctic fish genetics and evolution, Developmental and physiological adaptation in fishes, thermal Biology and aquaculture. He has published over 100 peer reviewed journal papers, with special contributions to the understanding of the origins of antifreeze proteins and adaptative genomic nd developmental evolution in polar fishes.
Liangbiao will join us via ZOOM.
Arja Rautio
Dr Arja Rautio is the Vice-President of Research University of the Arctic, and Professor of Arctic Research in Thule Institute, University of Oulu, has been working in the field of circumpolar health and well-being, marginalization, research ethics and human-environment relationships since 2006. The main research projects at the moment are Nunataruyk and ECDMET in the Horizon2020 program and Development of think thank functions of the Northern Dimension Institute, Research Ethics in Sami and First Nations and One Arctic - One Health projects. Dr Rautio is acting as a national key expert in the Arctic Council - Human Health Expert groups of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (www.amap.no) and Sustainable Development Working Group (co-chair of AHHEG). She is a board member of the International Union of Circumpolar Health and Chair of the Nordic Society of Circumpolar Health. Dr Rautio has published around 150 research papers.
Agnieszka Kruszewska
Director of Adminsitrative Affairs of the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Agnieszka Kruszewska also chairs the Polish Polar Consortium,is a member of the Presidium of the Polar Research Committee of the PAS, and represents the Polish Antarctic Program in COMNAP.
​She is in charge, since 2012, of managing the Polish Antarctic Station H. Arctowski, located on King George Island, South Shetland Islands (West Antarctica). Her job is to supervise the logistics and investments carried out at the station.
The Station was established in 1979 and has been operating continuously since then. At the Polish Antarctic Station research has been carried out in the fields of: oceanography, geology, geomorphology, glaciology, meteorology, seismology, biology and ecology, and monitoring programmes have been conducted: ecological, glaciological, hydrological, meteorological and marine.
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Krzysztof Otto
Krzysztof Otto is the Polar and Technical Director at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish coordinator of the European project "EU PolarNET".
Krzysztof supervises the organization and operation of the “Polish Polar Station Hornsund” in Spitsbergen and he is in charge of supervising the project "4th Geophysical Expedition" to the “Polish Polar Station Antoni BolesÅ‚aw Dobrowolski”, located in the Bunger Oasis in East Antarctica and he was the Polish representative of the preparatory phase of the European project "EPOS", the European Plate Observing System.
Catarina Magalhães
Catarina Magalhães holds a PhD in Marine Sciences and is a researcher of CIIMAR, invited assistant professor at University of Porto and member of the coordination committee of Portuguese Polar Program. Her major research theme is on understanding how microbial derived nitrogen machineries interact and to identify the mechanisms regulating their operation.
Catarina focus her research on the impact of pollutants in marine N-biogeochemical pathways and in identifying the environmental constraints and controls on microbial Nitrogen pathways distribution including in extreme environments (Arctic/Antarctica). In the context of her research the methodologies she use are mainly biogeochemical measurements, microbiome sample processing and genomic and metagenomic work flow analysis.
TBA - CHINARE
We are awating confirmation for a Zoom Connection with a responsible for the Chinese Artic and Antarctic Administration - Chinare, in charge of the porlar Programes and collaborative actions.