Josep Lluís Pelegrí

Josep Lluís Pelegrí is an oceanographer who studies ocean circulation, marine ecosystems and climate change, with a holistic vision of the planet. He worked for eight years in industry and eleven years as a university professor, and has been a National Research Council (CSIC) researcher at Barcelona’s Institute of Marine Sciences since 2003. Dean of the Marine Sciences programme at the University of Las Palmas (1998-2002), Spanish coordinator of Earth Sciences (2006-2010), head of the Institute of Marine Sciences (2018-2022) and coordinator of the UNESCO’s Ocean Cities programme (2021-2023), he’s coordinated numerous research projects and educational programmes, supervised 21 doctoral theses, published over 150 scientific papers and 50 essays, and edited 7 books.