Jesús M. Arrieta

Jesús M. Arrieta currently holds a permanent position as Senior Scientist at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). He graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of the Basque Country where he received the Honorary Collaborator award. After his graduation he moved to the University of Vienna (Austria) and later to the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (The Netherlands), where he obtained his PhD degree at the University of Groningen with the mention “Cum Laude” (top 5%) in 2005. After a postdoctoral period, he held a Ramón y Cajal research position between 2008 and 2014 at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced
Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC). Between 2015 and 2017, he worked at the Red Sea Research
Center of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
as Research Scientist (R5). He has published over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed
journals including some of the top-tier journals like Science, Nature and PNAS. His scientific
interests focus in marine microbial ecology and the role of microbes in the functioning of the
biosphere and the regulation of climate processes. Currently leading project POSEIDON, he
aims to shed some light on the mechanisms that allow the long-term storage of dissolved
organic carbon in the deep ocean.