Rate My Professor Griet Neukermans

Neukermans specializes in optical ocean observation technologies, bio-optical sensors, ocean colour remote sensing, BioGeoChemical-Argo floats, and studies of marine carbon cycling, planktonic ecosystem dynamics, and the ocean's biological and carbonate pumps. She is principal investigator of the European Research Council Starting Grant CarbOcean (2021-2028), an integrative approach to unravel the ocean's biological carbon pump. Major awards include the European Research Council Starting Grant (2019), European Commission award for exemplary Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow (2018), Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, VLIZ best oral presentation award (2016), VLIZ North Sea PhD award (2012), European Commission distinguished poster award (2010), The Oceanography Society Honourable Mention Student Paper award (2008), and VLIZ Young Researcher’s Thesis Award (2004). Key publications encompass 'The open ocean carbonate pump: current quantitative and mechanistic understanding based on remote sensing and in situ observations, observational gaps and future developments' (Earth-Science Reviews, 2023), 'Increased intrusion of warming Atlantic waters leads to rapid expansion of temperate phytoplankton in the Arctic' (Global Change Biology, 2018), 'Optical modeling of spectral backscattering and remote sensing reflectance from Emiliania huxleyi blooms' (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018), 'Detection of coccolithophore blooms with BioGeoChemical-Argo floats' (Geophysical Research Letters, 2020), and 'Mapping total suspended matter from geostationary satellites: a feasibility study with SEVIRI in the Southern North Sea' (Optics Express, 2009).