Is a Marine Sciences PhD working at ABAS NGO (Asociación Biodiversidad Atlántica y Sostenibilidad - Spain), and an associate researcher of IU-ECOAQUA (University Institute of Sustainable Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems at the ULPGC). He has long been involved through research and professional activities and projects, in multidisciplinary sectors of excellence (aquaculture, marine biodiversity, technical diving and public aquariums) through various international research projects. His current research focuses on the functioning of different 'ecosystems engineers' species, such as rhodoliths seabeds or Black Coral Forests (BCF), and the effect of environmental drivers affecting benthic communities associated with these ecosystems. Moreover he is also involved in the development of tools for mapping and assessment of marine ecosystem services, being the author of 27 articles in international journals with impact index. Multitasked, he is also a great ambassador for the oceans with his participation in various international rewarded wildlife documentaries.

Tuya is an Associate Professor at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, attached to the group specialising in Biodiversity and Conservation at the University Institute for Research into Sustainable Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems (IU-ECOAQUA). The motivation of his research is driven by the necessity of searching for models that explain patterns in the organization of benthic marine assemblages through ecosystems across different scales of space, time and taxonomy. His current work focuses on the effect of environmental stressors over 'ecosystems engineers', seagrasses and macroalgae in particular, but also corals. He has published more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and has actively participated in international forums. Tuya is an outdoors enthusiast that loves the sea and whatever a man can do in the ocean.

Feldens is a Marine Geologist working at the Leibniz institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde, Germany. His research is concerned with imaging the seafloor and the upper 50 m of the subsurface using a combination of geophysical und sedimentological methods. A key topic is the improvement of optical and acoustical remote sensing techniques used to identify and interpret geological and biological parameters of seafloor habitats. Further research questions are concerned with the reconstruction of the Pleistocene and Holocene evolution of sedimentary systems in marginal seas in response to climate change and sea level fluctuations. His research is primarily conducted in the Baltic Sea, but also the North Sea, North Atlantic and the Red Sea. 

Von Deimling studied Geology and received a doctorate in Geophysics. He is an expert in the development of customised hydroacoustic applications for special survey tasks such as underwater gas leaks and seepage, detection of shallow buried objects and the creation of environmental monitoring systems. He works at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel). His lines of research focus on the analysis of shallow marine gas and methane processes; custom acoustic measurements, processing and imaging; Multibeam Echo-Sounder (MBES) measurements, sub-bottom profile, hydroacoustic imaging; and acoustic mapping of the seafloor and habitat, focusing on submerged aquatic vegetation (e.g. sea grass).

This researcher has 20 years of experience in marine coastal flow and ecosystem modelling. With a fluid mechanics background, she develops transdisciplinary research about the interaction between hydrodynamics and the functioning and structuration of benthic communities. Her current focus goes to the role of connectivity on resilience capacity of benthic invertebrates meta-communities (polychaetes, gorgonians, corals) in the context of global change and protection actions. She therefore develops mechanistic numerical models for meta-populations and meta-communities in which connectivity is quantified using numerical simulations of Lagrangian dispersal including the effect of larval motility derived from experimental studies. She is member of the International Research Group on Marine Connectivity. Overall, she co-authored > 45 A1 papers (1217 citations, h-index 21 Google scholar) since 1999. She lead 5 research projects and supervised 6 PhD students. She is currently the head of the Benthic Ecogeochemistry Lab, one of the 4 research units hosted at Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer.