New Horizons in Meiobenthos Research: Profiles, Patterns and Potentials

Olav Giere is Professor Emeritus from Hamburg University (Germany), was Acting Professor since 1981 at the Zoological Institute and Museum, and there, he was Director Elected from 1999 to 2003.

- ecology and biology of marine Oligochaeta,

- response of meiofauna to oil pollution,

- reactions and adaptations of meiofauna to anoxia and hydrogen sulphide,

- bacteria-symbioses in animals from sulphidic habitats.

During his scientific activities, he worked in shallow shores and deep-sea sites all over the world. He organized and participated in several research projects, funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and the European Union. He was President of the International Association of Meiobenthologists from 1984 to 1986.

His publications comprise about 120 peer-reviewed papers and reviews, and he is Author of the monographic textbook "Meiobenthology - The Science of Microscopic Motile Fauna in Aquatic Sediments" published in 2009 and in a 2^nd revised and expanded edition in 2009 (Springer, 527 pp). He is Author of "Perspectives in Meiobenthology - Reviews, Reflections and Conclusions" (SpringerBriefs in Biology, 81 pp., 2019).

Dr. Michaela Schratzberger is Science Director at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) in the UK, with responsibility for approximately 140 scientific and technical staff working in the broad area of environmental science.

She has over 20 years' post-doctoral experience in marine ecology, specializing in the effects of environmental change on the ocean and biodiversity. Her research involves multidisciplinary studies assessing the response of marine ecosystems to natural and anthropogenic disturbance. She has been leading scientific input into large EU-, Defra- and UKRI-funded multidisciplinary research programmes and advises UK government on biodiversity-related issues in relation to the delivery of a UK network of Marine Protected Areas.

She is involved in international and national fora. She chaired the ICES Study Group on Biodiversity Science which became a Working Group under their leadership. She has been Associate Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Marine Biodiversity since 2008 and Technic^ 50% as lead author, > 3000 citations, H-index 30).

As Ph.D. Supervisor, Honorary Lecturer at the University of East Anglia and Mentor, she is supporting the next generation of scientists. She supervises Ph.D. students, acts as external examiner for Ph.D. theses andhas served on selection and evaluation panels of European Universities and on scientific steering committees of various international scientific conferences.

Olav Giere教授是德國漢堡大學的名譽教授，自1981年起在動物學研究所和博物館擔任代理教授，並在那裡擔任選舉主任一職，任期為1999年至2003年。作為受邀的教授和科學家，他在北美、百慕達、伯利茲、日本和澳大利亞的許多歐洲研究機構中活躍並合作。他的主要研究興趣包括：海洋環節動物的生態學和生物學、中小型底棲動物對油污染的反應、中小型底棲動物對缺氧和硫化氫的適應和反應，以及生活在含硫環境中的動物的細菌共生。在他的科學活動中，他在世界各地的淺海和深海地點進行了工作。他組織並參與了幾個由德國研究委員會（DFG）和歐洲聯盟資助的研究項目。他曾擔任1984年至1986年國際中小型底棲動物學家協會的主席。他的出版物包括約120篇同行評審的論文和評論，並且他是2009年出版的專著教科書《微小水生底棲動物學-水生沉積物中微小運動動物的科學》的作者，該書於2009年出版了第二版修訂和擴展版（Springer，527頁）。他還是2019年出版的《中小型底棲動物學的展望-評論、反思和結論》（SpringerBriefs in Biology，81頁）的作者。

Dr. Michaela Schratzberger是英國環境、漁業和水產科學中心（Cefas）的科學總監，負責約140名在環境科學領域工作的科學和技術人員。她在海洋生態學方面擁有超過20年的博士後經驗，專注於環境變化對海洋和生物多樣性的影響。她的研究涉及多學科研究，評估海洋生態系統對自然和人為干擾的反應。她一直領導大型歐盟、Defra和UKRI資助的多學科研究計劃，並就生物多樣性相關問題向英國政府提供建議，以實現英國海洋保護區網絡的建設。

她參與國際和國家論壇。她曾擔任ICES生物多樣性科學研究小組的主席，該小組在其領導下成為一個工作小組。她自2008年以來一直擔任國際同行評審期刊《海洋生物多樣性》的副編輯，並以首席作者身份發表了超過3000次引用的論文，H指數為30。

作為博士生導師、東安格利亞大學的名譽講師和導師，她支持下一代科學家的培養。她指導博士生，擔任博士論文的外部評審，並曾擔任歐洲大學的選拔和評估小組以及各種國際科學會議的科學指導委員會的成員。