**Federico Baltar**

Dr. Federico Baltar is an Associate Professor of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests are in biological oceanography integrating marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. From coastal seas to open oceans, from Fjords to the seawater below the Antarctic Ice Shelfs, all are large seawater environments performing relevant ecosystem services and functions driven by tiny microbial engines, including fungi. Dr. Federico Baltar's research group studies the factors that control the functioning of these seawater microbes to get a mechanistic understanding of this microbial engine today, and predict how it might change in the future ocean. Dr. Federico Baltar received his Ph.D. in 2010 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising >70 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Federico Baltar's Google Scholar Citations number >2500. He has received several research-related awards, including among others, the 2016 Outstanding Young Scientist in Biogeosciences Award (from the European Geosciences Union, EGU), the Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (from the Royal Society of New Zealand), and the 2021 JoF Youg Investigator Award.
