Antje Boetius is a polar and deep-sea researcher, and Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. She is an expert of biological oceanography, deep-sea biology, microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of the ocean including novel ocean observation technologies. Antje Boetius has led or participated in over 50 expeditions, and she has coordinated many national and international research programs focusing on the Atlantic realm and other world’s oceans. Current topics of the group include the study of life under the ice, and the long-term observation of the effects of global warming on polar ecosystems. Antje Boetius has been elected as an external scientific member of the Max Planck Society, to the German National Academy Leopoldina. She is an expert on ocean health and a policy advisor to numerous national and international commissions on climate, biodiversity and science innovation. Currently she leads an initiative to improve international collaboration to address the dynamic change in the polar seas, both in the Arctic and Antarctic. She has a long record of engaging in science communication including collaboration with arts and media, especially film and theatre.
