Biography

 

Jana Piñel Rodríguez obtained a Biology Degree (Hons) in the Autonomous University of Madrid and graduated from the International Master in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea), an Erasmus Mundus Master's program where she specialized in Global Change and Functional Biodiversity at the Sorbonne University (France) and Marine Habitat Restoration at the Marche Polytechnic University (Italy). She acquired practical experience in coral restoration working with Marine Conservation Society Seychelles (MCSS). Jana completed her M.S. thesis took place at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven (Germany), where she compared two methods for Arctic phytoplankton analysis: light microcopy and Imaging Flow Cytometry (IFC). She subsequently worked on the identification of benthic species on artificial substrata in the North-Sea in the Marine Ecology and Management (MARECO) team and got hands-on experience in plankton sampling onboard the Tom Crean RV, as part of the Celtic Sea Herring Acoustic Survey in Ireland.

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She is currently a PhD candidate at the Biological Oceanography Group (GOB) within the Institute of Oceanography and Global Change (IOCAG) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), under the supervision of Javier Arístegui (GOB, IOCAG), Xosé Antón Álvarez Salgado (IIM-CSIC) and Antonio Martínez Marrero (IOCAG). Her work, framed in the IMAGE research project, will contribute to understanding the role of the mesoscale and submesoscale transient structures that develop in the Greenland Sea during the summer, in the context of the Biological Carbon Pump.

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