Sabrina Speich

Sabrina Speich was born in Milan and lives in Paris. Passionate about the sea and sailing from her earliest years, she discovered science and in particular physics during high school. She then decided to bring her passions together and become an oceanographer physicist. Later, for work, she had the opportunity to live on different seas and continents as a lecturer in Oceanography and Climate Science. Today, she is a professor at the École normale supérieure in Paris and a member of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Climate Institute. She conducts research on the role of the ocean on climate and marine biodiversity. She also chairs various committees for climate and the ocean, under the aegis of the World Meteorological Organisation and the UN. She is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Albert Defant Medal in 2019.