Short biography
Patrizia Ziveri is ICREA Research Professor and Scientific Director at ICTA-UAB, where she coordinates the Marine Environmental Systems Science Research Group (MERS), which catalyzes research on natural and human-driven marine processes and the sustainability challenges they pose. Before joining ICREA, she obtained her PhD at the University of Padua (Italy) / University of South Carolina (USA), focusing on the impacts of El Niño climate oscillations on calcareous phytoplankton in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. After a postdoc at USC, she moved to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, as a research scientist / associate professor. She led the first European coordinated effort to address ocean acidification in the Mediterranean Sea (2011-14). She was the Scientific Director of the ICTA-UAB Center of Excellence ‘María de Maeztu’ (2015-20).
