Paula is a Biologist from the Complutense University of Madrid, has a Master’s degree in Fisheries and Aquaculture from the University of Cadiz and an expert program from the Antonio de Nebrija University in applied statistics with R. She currently works at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography. At a professional level, she has always been linked to fishing and the sea, and she currently combines her work at the IEO with completing her doctoral thesis. But her passion for the sea goes much further, since she was a child she was very interested in the big blue. In her adolescence, she was lucky to live in paradise and discover surfing. From that moment on her life has always been linked to the sea in one way or another, she has lived in different places on the Spanish coast and the USA, but the place that gives her calm and to which she always returns is on the Cantabrian coast.

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is obvious that it should be called Ocean” – Arthur Clarke