The SEAO2-CDR team includes staff working at leading European marine, climate policy, economic and political science research institutions, in addition to an international ocean business alliance and specialists in the administration, coordination and management of European research and innovation projects.

In uniting this world-class expertise around the shared issue of ocean-based climate change mitigation strategies, SEAO2-CDR has the depth, breath and interdisciplinary expertise required to improve our ability to evaluate and assess the environmental safety, social acceptability and economic viability of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal.


National Oceanography Centre

Christopher Pearce
Socratis Loucaides
Pablo Trucco Pignata
Allison Schaap
Efstathios Papadimitriou
David Paxton
Karina Cardwell
Joel Hedges
Sophie Clayton
Vita Zaporozcenko


University of Cambridge

Shaun Fitzgerald
David Reiner
John Taylor
Jorge Vinuales
Zeynep Clulow
Natalie Selwood


Heriot Watt University

Phil Renforth
Callum Ward


World Ocean Council Europe

Jill Storey
Lisa Simone de Grunt


GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research

Andreas Oschlies
Sandy Avrutin


Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Christine Merk
Wilfried Rickels
Andrea Wunsch
Lotta Siebert


Kiel University

Frank Meisel
Lisa Herlicka


University of Leipzig

Patricia Grasse
Rudi Voss


LUISS University

Silvia Menegazzi
Manfredi Marciante
Yelena Yermakova
Raffaele Marchetti
Pietro Pustorino
Gianfranco Pellegrino
Donato Greco


University of Leiden

Nils Thonemann
Mona Delval


Uniresearch

Willem van Dorp
Simon van Hurne


Centre for Social and Economic Research

Karolina Zubel
Agnieszka Maj
Jan Bazyli Klakla


Comillas Pontifical University

Pedro Linares
Antonio Rodriguez Matas


European University Institute

Ginevra le Moli