Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Activities
Dr. Catarina Frazão Santos is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at CIÊNCIAS (Department of Biology, MARE/ARNET), Awardee of the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant, PLAnT “Planning for sustainable ocean use in Antarctica under global change”), and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford (School of Geography and the Environment). Her research focuses primarily on the challenges of developing sustainable ocean planning and governance under global environmental and social change. Her work has been published in Science and several Nature journals, among others. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Nature npj Ocean Sustainability journal, and over the past few years has been actively supporting the European Commission, UNESCO and the World Bank as a senior consultant on MSP-related topics. She holds a PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of Lisbon (co-directed by Duke University) and has a background in marine biology and environmental management.
Sea regions of study
North Atlantic Ocean
Southern Ocean