Malin Ödalen (Germany, chairperson): Malin is a permanent scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. She is a modeller with a PhD from Stockholm University (2019) who is interested in physical and biogeochemical aspects of the ocean’s role in the climate system. Her research topics are Southern Ocean processes, and global ocean carbon storage across climate states. Passionate about outdoor activities, live concerts, world politics, and her home region in Sweden north of the Artic Circle.

Cathy Wimart-Rousseau (Germany, chairperson): Cathy is a post-doctoral researcher in chemical oceanography at GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany). Her research focuses on the marine carbon cycle as well as the CO2 exchanges at the air-sea interface. For this purpose, she deals with in situ data measured by numerous autonomous platforms (ex. BGC-Argo floats) and works on the enhancement of float-pH data QC methods. She collaborates internationally in both the EA-RISE and EuroSea projects. When she is not onboarding a research vessel to collect data or deploy a float, Cathy enjoys reading, running, and outdoor activities in general.

Mujeeb Akanbi Abdulfatai (Nigeria, member): Mujeeb is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Marine Science (Physical Oceanography) at the University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, USA. His background is deeply rooted in marine science, and he sees himself as an observational oceanographer with a touch of ocean modeling. His doctoral work focuses on diagnosing internal waves and their energetics—particularly the higher harmonics—using the global Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) and observational datasets. Mujeeb enjoys watching the full moon and its reflection on the sea, playing table tennis, and watching soccer.

Marina Azaneu (UK, member): Marina is a physical oceanographer working at University of East Anglia (UEA, UK) on ocean-atmospheric interaction in the tropics. Her work is focused on intraseasonal variability and extreme precipitation events in the eastern Indian Ocean using models and ocean glider data. However, she hasn't yet let go completely of her past as a polar researcher, still getting involved whenever she can with Antarctica, because there is nothing more exciting than trying to finish dinner whilst crossing the Drake Strait.

Aditya Narayanan (UK, member): Aditya is a physical oceanographe primarily interested in ocean - sea ice - cryosphere interactions in Antarctica. He enjoys reading and writing, and he is a aspiring trail runner!

Romain Caneill (France, member): Romain is a post-doctoral researcher at IGE in Grenoble, France. He is working in the SASIP project. He graduated with a PhD from Gothenburg University (2024) in Sweden in physical oceanography: he looked at the role of buoyancy forcing and equation of state in shaping the upper ocean stratification. He is now exploring the dynamics of sea ice. He is a free software advocate, a climber, a guitarist, and a father of 3 boys.

Leonard Borchert (France, member): Leo Borchert researches climate extremes, their seasonal to decadal predictability and interaction with society. He is particularly interested in the climate processes that give rise to climate extreme predictability, often residing in the ocean, and the interaction with stakeholders to distill processes by which his prediction information can have an impact on society. For example, Leo’s previous research focused on heat waves, storm surges, and dry spells. He obtained a PhD from the IMPRS for Earth System Modeling in Hamburg, held Postdoc positions at MPI in Hamburg and several IPSL laboratories in Paris, and now co-leads the Climate Extremes group at the Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Risk at the University of Hamburg, where he is currently also substituting for the Climate Extremes professorship. When he is not in front of a computer or in a lecture hall, Leo spends a lot of time with his son, enjoys music in all of its forms, and is a real story junky - good books and movies/TV shows are essential to him.

Alejandra Sanchez-Franks (UK, chairperson): Alejandra is a research scientist in the Marine Physics and Ocean Climate Group at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton. She joined NOC after finishing her PhD in Stony Brook University, New York in April 2015 to work on the Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE) project, which is a joint collaboration between the UK and India investigating the role of the Bay of Bengal in monsoon variability. As of January 2019, she has joined the RAPID-AMOC (project monitoring the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation) team.

Alex Haumann (Germany, member): Alex is an environmental scientist studying the polar climate of the Southern Ocean and the interaction between ocean, ice, atmosphere, and the global carbon and water cycles. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich (2016). Until 2022, he worked as Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University and he is a BAS honorary researcher. Since 2023, he is a research group leader at the Alfred Wegener Institute and a Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universtiy Munich. Alex enjoys cooking, hiking, travelling, snowboarding, and the outdoors in general.

Arvind Singh (India, member): Arvind Singh is a Reader at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmdedabad, India. He obtained his PhD in Oceanography from PRL in 2011, was a postdoc at University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2012) and GEOMAR, Germany (2013-2015). His research interests are biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen in the ocean and atmosphere, stable isotopes in the marine environment and oceanographic time-series studies. He teaches ocean biogeochemistry and error analysis courses at PRL.

Casimir de Lavergne (France, member): Casimir is a physical oceanographer at the LOCEAN Laboratory in Paris. He studies the climatic functions of the deep and polar oceans, focusing on turbulence and mixing in the ocean abyss. Long runs and long nights out keep him in balance.

Danielle Su (France, member): Danielle started her journey as an oceanographer moving from one island (Singapore) to another (Australia) and recently completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia investigating flow topography interactions around islands in the Northern Indian Ocean. Now at the LOCEAN Laboratory in Paris, she is delving into the world of biogeochemistry. Enjoys hiking and good wine, especially if done together.

Jesse Cusack (USA, member): Jesse is an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. He researches small scale physical processes in the ocean, such as turbulence, internal waves, as well as turbulent processes at the ice-ocean boundary. He greatly enjoys going to sea to collect observations, and while on land spends his free time rock climbing or hiking.

Kay McMonigal (USA, member): Kay is an Assistant Professor of Oceanography at University of Alaska Fairbanks. His work focuses on how ocean currents are changing due to climate change, and the impacts this has on local, regional, and global climate. For a healthy work-life balance, Kay enjoys running and reading.

Prasad Padalkar (India, member): Prasad is a research scholar working with Prof. Parthasarthi Chakraborty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His research deals with understanding the biogeochemical cycling of mercury in tropical coastal environments. In particular, he investigates how the elemental form of mercury controls mercury pollution and the effect of climate change stressors on cycling of mercury in coastal waters.