Malin Ödalen (Germany, chairperson): Malin is a post-doctoral researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, working in the SO-CHIC project. 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 the ocean, world politics, outdoor activities and her home region in Sweden north of the Artic Circle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mujeeb Akanbi Abdulfatai (Nigeria, member): Mujeeb is a first-year PhD student working with Prof Maarten Buijsman at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, USA. His work focuses on diagnosing internal waves in the Pacific Ocean. He recently concluded research on estimating the Ocean Heat Content along the Atlantic Ocean advised by Prof Peter Lemke. He enjoys going on research cruises, coding 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.

Cathy Wimart-Rousseau (Germany, member): 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.

Aditya Narayanan (UK, member): Aditya Narayanan obtained his Ph.D. studying Antarctic marginal sea watermasses from the Department of Ocean Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2020. He then worked on Southern Ocean polynyas as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg Sweden until recently. He works now as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton. He studies oceanic heat transport towards the Amundsen Sea. His research interests include Southern Ocean dynamics, ice-ocean interaction, and oceanic heat transport. Trail running is one of his favorite activities throughout the year!

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.

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.