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
Full Professor Ecology
Fernando Gonzalez Taboada
Principal investigator
María Zambrano Researcher
José Manuel Rico Ordás
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Full Professor Ecology
Nicolás Weidberg López
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Assistant Professor of Ecology
Carlos Guardado Fernández
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Technician
University of Las Palmas De Gran Canaria
May Gómez Cabrera
Coordinator
(subproyect)
Full Professor Zoology
Jorge Cabrera Gámez
Principal investigator
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Antonio C. Domínguez Brito
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Associate Professor of Computer Architecture and Technology
Alicia Herrera Ulibarri
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Prestigious researcher Viera y Clavijo
Ico Martínez Sánchez
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Researcher
Álvaro Torres Gómez
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Posdoctoral research
Anna Cunill Sáez
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Doctoral student
Institute of Marine Sciences in Andalucia (ICMAN – CSIC)
Laura Prieto Galvez
Coordinator
(subproyect)
Senior Research Scientist
Javier Ruiz
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Full professor
Susana Rodríguez
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Research Specialized Assistant
Raúl García
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Research Specialized Assistant
María Ferrer
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Research Specialized Assistant
Manuel León
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FPU doctoral student
Antonio Moreno
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Technician
Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO – CSIC)
Ángel López-Urrutia
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Senior Research Scientist
Arizona State University
Leocadio Blanco Bercial
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Researcher
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
Juan Höfer
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Senior lecturer
Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB)
Melanie Juza
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Resercher
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Diego Macias
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Senior Research Officer
Elisa García
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Researcher