BIO
Carlos M. Duarte, a marine ecologists specializing in the study of climate change, holds the Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia). His research focuses on understanding the impacts of global change in marine ecosystems, addressing all components from microbes to macrophytes, from coastal systems to the open ocean, and from the tropics to polar systems, with two particular nodes of interest: the metabolic and elemental budgets of ecosystems and their connectivity in space; and the stability and dynamics of marine habitats and the maintenance of biodiversity. Among other distinctions, he is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and recipient of its Blaise Pascal Medal for Earth and Environmental Sciences, as well as the Carlo Heip International Award of the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, the Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal of the European Geosciences Union and the 2019 Ramón Margalef Prize in Ecology.