Just T. Bayle-Sempere currently works at the Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biologia Aplicada and Instituto Multidisciplinar para Estudio del Medio "Ramón Margalef", University of Alicante. Just does research in ecosystem dynamics and impacts on marine ecosystems. The research lines he has developed deal with the ecology of marine protected areas and artificial reefs, participating in design, creation, and monitoring projects, the analysis of anthropic impacts in key marine ecosystems, the environmental effects of open-sea aquaculture, and ecosystem modeling as a tool to assess the effects of ecological processes and anthropogenic activities. He has participated as a researcher in 60 research projects, 5 of them funded by the EU (2 of which as principal investigator). He has co-authored 95 publications, with 65 of them in international impact journals. He also works as a consultant for fishing organisations and NGOs.
Dr Angel Pérez-Ruzafa is Full Professor at the Department of Ecology and Hydrology of the University of Murcia. He completed his PhD studies in Biology at the University of Murcia, and has been awarded with the Medal of Civil Merit awarded by the King of Spain for his work in the ecology of coastal lagoons and his contribution to the defence of the ecological integrity of the Mar Menor lagoon. He led the EU Project European Marine Protected Areas as a tool for fisheries management and conservation (EMPAFISH). He has published 220 papers in various journals, and serves as Académico de número and Académico correspondiente for the Academia de Ciencias de la Región de Murcia and Academia Canaria de Ciencias, respectively. His teaching disciplines include Ecology, Biological Oceanography and Ecosystem Management, and his interests include Coastal lagoons ecology, Ecology of marine ecosystems, MPA functioning, impacts of human activities and climate change on coastal ecosystems and fish ecology and ecology, biology biogeography and taxonomy of echinoderms.
