Han Lindeboom is professor in Marine Ecology at Wageningen University and Senior Advisor at both Royal NIOZ and Wageningen Marine Research in the Netherlands. Major topics of interest include eutrophication, (micro)pollution, effects of fisheries, impact of wind farms, marine spatial planning...

Jane Delany is a Senior Lecturer in Marine Ecology at Newcastle University and Head of the Dove Marine Laboratory. Her research interests lie in marine intertidal community ecology, plankton dynamics and applications of marine science to reduce the risk of marine invasive events.

Matthias Obst has 15 years of experience as academic researcher, infrastructure developer, project manager and entrepreneur in the marine environmental sector. His background is in systematics, ecology and conservation of marine benthic invertebrates...

Ruth Pirlet obtained a master’s degree in History (major in cultural history) at the Catholic University of Leuven and is currently working as a scientific assistant at the NAVIGO National Fisheries Museum (Oostduinkerke, Belgium).

Georg Engelhard is an all-round scientist working at Cefas, UK. Georg’s research covers a wide range of taxa from benthos to fish to marine mammals, and subjects ranging from climatic change to fishing impacts.