Employees

Ricardo is our new intern and comes from the Cape Verde Islands. He started his path as a marine biologist in Portugal, where he specialised in fisheries and aquaculture. But as his interest in [...]

Olof Bengtsson is a marine biologist with expertise in ecology of high–trophic level animals (marine mammals and fish). Originally hailing from southern Sweden, he moved to Tromsø from Lund in [...]

Eleonora Oerlemans, who goes by Eli, is NAMMCO’s new intern. She comes from the Netherlands and is studying Wildlife Management at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences. Her academic [...]

Noor Elias is the new intern at NAMMCO. She comes from the Netherlands and has always been captivated by the natural world. Noor started her academic journey in microbiology at the Leiden [...]

Marina Metić is NAMMCO’s new intern. She comes from Croatia but has lived in Norway for the past two years. She fell in love with the sea and marine mammals, particularly whales, as a kid and [...]

Maria is a marine mammal biologist. She moved from Greece to Ireland to do a master’s in marine biology, and stayed there to complete her PhD at University College Cork. Her doctoral [...]

Naima El Bani Altuna is one of the Deputy Secretaries at the NAMMCO – North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission Secretariat. With a strong academic background in geology (BSc in Geology and MSc in [...]

Ian is from Canada and his areas of expertise include business administration, project management, and communication. With a diverse professional background spanning various business [...]

Jana is from Germany and recently acquired her M.Sc. in Marine Biology from Stockholm University. She formed interests in conservation, species distribution modelling and the impact of [...]

Albert has a PhD in Population Ecology (University of Barcelona, 2013) and ample international experience as a researcher in animal population dynamics. Before joining NAMMCO, Albert worked as [...]