BIO
Miquel Canals is Director of the Sustainable Blue Economy Chair and former head of the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics at the University of Barcelona (Spain). His areas of research interest include the sustainable blue economy, global change and the ocean, high-energy oceanographic processes and their consequences, paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, and anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, an initiative of 60 institutions from 25 countries and the European Commission to pool research and innovation investments and align national programs at pan-European scale. A member of the editorial board of Progress in Oceanography, and an expert reviewer for the European Commission and the European Science Foundation, he has also served as director of the Earth Sciences Section of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. He holds Spain’s Alejandro Malaspina National Research Award in Natural Resources Science and Technology.
