Carlo Heip
Professor Carlo
Heip was the former director and now senior advisor of the
Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research and professor at the
universities of Groningen (Netherlands) and Gent (Belgium). He has
conducted research on benthic biology with a gradual shift from
brackish waters and population dynamics of meiofauna (seventies) to
impact studies and ecotoxicology (seventies and early eighties) to
biogeochemistry and ecology of sediments (nineties) in estuarine,
shallow coastal and deep-sea environments. In the first decade of
the 21st century he became engaged in several international marine
biodiversity programmes and was active in the Scientific Steering
Committees of Diversitas, SCOPE and the Census of Marine
Life. He was also general coordinator of the EU Network of
Excellence MarBEF (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Functioning).
He was the principal scientist for over 20 major four year
projects in basic research and over 20 applied research projects in
Belgium and was a member of the national IGPB committee and chair
of the national LOICZ committee in the Netherlands. He has
coordinated many EU Projects including JEEP (Joint European
Estuaries Project, ECOFLAT (Ecology of Tidal Flats), MATURE
(Ecology and Biogeochemistry of the Maximum Turbidity
Zone, BIOMARE’ (Implementation of Long Term Large Scale Marine
Biodiversity Research in Europe), MARBENA (Infrastructure for
Marine Biodiversity Research in Europe) and the Network of
Excellence MARBEF (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning),
EU 6th FP.
.