Roberto Benavides

FB 4: Dynamik des Ozeanbodens
FE Marine Geodynamik

Office:
Phone:
+49 431 600 2193
Email:
rbenavides(at)geomar.de

Address:
Wischhofstraße 1-3
24148 Kiel

Projects

  • Since 2024: Project Coordinator MULTI-MAREX: A living lab for improved forecasting and possible actions for multiple extreme geomarine events
     
  • 2022-2024 Projekt Director SPOT-KI , Schleswig Holstein Artificial Initiative of the State (KI-Förderrichtlinie SH): SPOT-KI: Digital Twins, Robotics, AI and Sensors for Monitoring of Überwachung large-scale industrial plants, "Monitoring-as-a-Service".

  • 2021-2023 Projekt Director aeroQ Mobile Luftqualität Uberwachung in der Stadt
     
  • 2021-2022 Projekt Director Helmholtz Enterprise (HE): "B2 Multigas Sensor and B2SensorsGmbH"

  • 2017-2021 Projekt Director Helmholtz Validation Fund (HVF): HVF-00062 "B2 Multigas Sensor"

 

Research Interests

Extreme geological events and associated risks

Quantification of climate-relevant trace gas emissions

Submarine volcanoes

QC-IR sensor technology

Patents

EP3803319 - Underwater Gas Measurement Device for Dissolved Gases in Water

DE:10 2018 112 526.7 Underwater-gas measurement device for gases dissolved in water

Peer-reviewed-publications

  • Luisa Galgani, Eleni Tzempelikou, Ioanna Kalantzi, Anastasia Tsiola, Manolis Tsapakis, Paraskevi Pitta, Chiara Esposito, Anastasia Tsotskou, Iordanis Magiopoulos, Roberto Benavides, Tobias Steinhoff, Steven A. Loiselle, Marine plastics alter the organic matter composition of the air-sea boundary layer, with influences on CO2 exchange: a large-scale analysis method to explore future ocean scenarios, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 857, Part 3, 2023, 159624, ISSN 0048-9697, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159624

 

  • M. Lebrato, D. Garbe-Schönberg, M.N. Müller, S. Blanco-Ameijeiras, R.A. Feely, L. Lorenzoni, J. Molinero, K. Bremer, D.O.B. Jones, D. Iglesias-Rodriguez, D. Greeley, M.D. Lamare, A. Paulmier, M. Graco, J. Cartes, J. Barcelos e Ramos, A. de Lara, R. Sanchez-Leal, P. Jimenez, F.E. Paparazzo, S.E. Hartman, U. Westernströer, M. Küter, R. Benavides, A.F. da Silva, S. Bell, C. Payne, S. Olafsdottir, K. Robinson, L.M. Jantunen, A. Korablev, R.J. Webster, E.M. Jones, O. Gilg, P. Bailly du Bois, J. Beldowski, C. Ashjian, N.D. Yahia, B. Twining, X. Chen, L. Tseng, J. Hwang, H. Dahms, & A. Oschlies, Global variability in seawater Mg:Ca and Sr:Ca ratios in the modern ocean, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117 (36) 22281-22292, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918943117 (2020).

 

  • Lebrato Mario, Mendes Pedro de Jesus, Steinberg Deborah K., Cartes Joan E., Jones Bethan M., Birsa Laura M., Benavides Roberto, Oschlies Andreas, (2013), Jelly biomass sinking speed reveals a fast carbon export mechanism, Limnology and Oceanography, 58, doi: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.3.1113.

Full peer-reviewed publications: ORcid & OceanREP

CV

Prize: GEOMAR Innovation Award Team 2019
2019-2020 University of London, London Business School, Strategic Business Management
2011-2013 Kiel University, MSc Materials Science and Engineering
2007-2010 Kiel University, BSc Materials Science and Engineering
2003-2006 Universidad Rafael Landivar, BSc Mechanical Engineering