BIO
Miquel Canals is Director of the Sustainable Blue Economy Chair at the University of Barcelona (Spain) since 2022 and was Director of the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics at the same university until January 2023. His areas of research interest include the sustainable blue economy, global change and the ocean, high-energy oceanographic processes and their consequences, paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, and anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems. Since December 2022, he has served on the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, an initiative of 60 institutions from 25 countries and the European Commission to pool research and innovation investments and align national programs at pan-European scale. A member of the editorial board of Progress in Oceanography, he is also a co-recipient of the 2020 European Archaeological Heritage Prize awarded to the SPLASHCOS project, and Director of the Earth Sciences Section of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona.
