Rui Santos received his Ph.D. in Biology from University of Dalhousie, Halifax, Canada (1993).

Micheline obtained a Master's degree in Biology and Marine and Lacustrine Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium.

Ester Serrao (PhD University of Maine, USA) studies how marine populations disperse, evolve and adapt as species rang

Professor of International Law and Director of the Department of Social and Human Sciences in the University of Napol