Miquel Canals#

• Since 2023, 01. Director of the Sustainable Blue Economy Chair, University of Barcelona
• 2016, 02 - 2023, 01 Founder and first director of the Earth and Ocean Dynamics Department, University of Barcelona
• 2010, 02 - 2016, 02 Director of the Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences Department, University of Barcelona
• Since 2002, 04. Full Professor of Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona
• 2000 - 2001 Associated research director of French CNRS, CEFREM, Perpignan (under a leave of absence by Univ. of Barcelona)
• 1992 - 2022 Founder and coordinator of the excellence research group on Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona.
• 1989, 03 - 2002, 04 Professor of Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona
• 1987, 10 - 1989, 03 Associate lecturer, University of Barcelona
• 1982, 10 - 1987, 09 Assistant lecturer, University of Barcelona
• 1979, 04 - 1982, 09 Predoc research assistant, "Jaime Almera" Earth Sciences Institute, CSIC, Barcelona

• Marine sedimentary processes and products
• Sustainable Blue Economy
• Human impacts on the marine environment
• Global change and the ocean
• Submarine canyon dynamics
• Submarine glaciology and polar marine research
• Monitoring of the marine environment
• Marine biogeochemistry
• Marine geohazards
• Seafloor mapping

• 2024 Scientific Research National Award in the field of Sciences and Technologies of Natural Resources, Spanish Government
• Since 2022 Managing coordinator of the Blue Economy Observatory of Barcelona under the umbrella of Barcelona Activa, the business development agency of the city council
• Since 2021 Elected director of the Earth Sciences section of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona.
• 2020 Co-recipient of the European Archaeological Heritage Prize of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) to the SPLASHCOS project (Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes and Archaeology of the Continental Shelf)
• 2019-2022 Elected and serving as co-chair of the EC’s Technical Group on Seabed (TG SEABED) for the practical implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, Descriptors 1 on Biological diversity, benthic, and 6 on Seafloor integrity), in all European seas
• 2017 - 2023 Included in the top 2% most influential researchers in the fields of Oceanography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Geochemistry and Geophysics of the Stanford Ranking in the six versions published to date (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023), the last one in October 2024 with data from 2023
• Since 2014 Elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, assigned to the Earth Sciences section
• Since 2009 Jury member of Fundación BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, Climate Change category
• 2008 King James the 1rst to the Protection of the Environment, Fundación Premis Rei Jaume I, Valencian Government
• 2004 - 2008 Distinction to the Promotion of University Research, Catalan Government, senior class

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