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Christiane Lancelot was born and raised in Brussels. She studied biochemistry at the ‘Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)’ where she then completed her PhD on North Sea Phytoplankton Ecology.
She now holds the position of Professor and Director of the Laboratory ‘Ecologie des Systèmes Aquatiques’ at ULB. Her research activity addresses the study and modelling of the response of marine ecosystems to climate and anthropogenic changes throughout the understanding of the interactions between plankton organisms and marine biogeochemical cycles (C, N, P, Si, Fe).
Her research questions the contribution of biological processes to air-ice-sea exchanges of CO2 and DMS in the Southern Ocean as well as the response of coastal eutrophication and harmful algal blooms (e.g. Phaeocystis) to changing nutrient loads and climate in the North Sea. In this scope, she has been involved in several national and international projects and chaired and co-chaired international conferences such as the Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science.