Members

Meet our team

PHYSALIA is a multidisciplinary project in which oceanographers, engineers, evolutionary ecologists and modellers work together to understand how ocean surface currents and winds shape the ecology and evolution of the dangerous siphonophore Physalia physalis (Portuguese Man’O’War, PMW) from local to biogeographical scales.

University of Oviedo

  • José Luis Acuña Fernández. Coordinator
  • José Manuel Rico Ordás. Research Team
  • Nicolás Weidberg López. Research Team
  • Jesús Ángel García Maza. Research Team
  • Deva Menéndez Teleña. Research Team
  • Verónica Soto López. Research Team
  • Ramón Rubio García. Reserarch Team
  • Gemma Capeáns García. Research Team. PhD student
  • Yago Iván Baragaño. Research Team. PhD student
  • Mario Cabrera Lavara. MSc student
  • Carlos Guardado Fernández. Work Team

University of Las Palmas De Gran Canaria

  • May Gómez Cabrera. Coordinator
  • Jorge Cabrera Gámez. Principal investigator
  • Antonio C. Domínguez Brito. Research Team
  • Alicia Herrera Ulibarri. Work Team
  • Ico Martínez Sánchez. Work Team
  • Álvaro Torres Gómez. Work Team
  • Anna Cunill Sáez. Work Team

Institute of Marine Sciences in Andalucia (ICMAN – CSIC)

  • Laura Prieto Galvez. Coordinator
  • Javier Ruiz. Research Team
  • Susana Rodríguez. Research Team
  • Raúl García. Research Team
  • María Ferrer. Research Team
  • Itziar Álvarez Trasobares. Work Team
  • Manuel León. Work Team
  • Antonio Moreno. Work Team

Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO – CSIC)

  • Fernando Gonzalez Taboada. Coordinator
  • Ángel López-Urrutia. Research Team
  • Iñaki Huskin. Work Team
  • Itziar Munuera. Work Team
  • Alejandro Isla. Work Team
  • Pili Fernández Martín. Work Team

Arizona State University

  • Leocadio Blanco Bercial. Work Team

Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso

  • Juan Höfer. Work Team

Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB)

  • Melanie Juza. Research Team

Joint Research Centre (JRC)

  • Diego Macias Moy. Work Team
  • Elisa García. Work Team

BIOPARC Aquarium of Gijón

  • Susana Acle Olivo. Work Team