Prof. Dr. Nicole Dubilier, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen. “The Art of Harnessing Dark Energy: Symbioses between Chemosynthetic Bacteria and Marine Invertebrates”

Prof. Dr. Maureen Raymo, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University: “What can past warm periods tell us about the stability of polar ice sheets?"

Prof. Dr. Rachael James, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, UK: “Negative Emissions: Removing Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere”

Prof. Dr. Robin Teigland, Chalmers Unviersity of Technology, Sweden: "From Ocean Data Factory to Peniche Ocean Watch: Research and Engaged Scholarship within Data Science"

Dr. Nora Loose, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA: Oceanic teleconnections in the North Atlantic: "From dynamical proxy potential to observing system design"

Dr. Johann Jungclaus, Der Ozean im Erdsystem (OES), Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany: "ICON and the Earth System Model development strategy at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology"

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Caroline Katsman, Delft University, Netherlands: "From small whirls to the global ocean - How ocean eddies affect the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation"

Dr. Mar Fernandez-Mendez, AWI, Bremerhaven: „The potential of off-shore Sargassum aquafarming for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage”

Dr. Sijia Zou, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen, China: "Deep Ocean Circulation in the Subpolar North Atlantic Observed by Acoustically-tracked Floats"

Audrey Delpech, University of California, Los Angeles: "The dynamics and effects of deep zonal jets at low latitudes in the oceans"