Prof. Jean-Pierre Gattuso is research director at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6.

His main research activity relates to the cycling of carbon and carbonate in coastal ecosystems. More recently, he focused on the response of marine organisms and ecosystems to climate change and ocean acidification.

He was the Scientific Coordinator of the EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification, 7 institutes from 9 European countries) and the eFOCE (BNP-Paribas Foundation, 7 institutes from Europe and the US) projects. He was a lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC.

Jean-Pierre Gattuso is also the Founding President of the European Geosciences Union Biogeosciences Division and the Founding editor-in-chief of the journal Biogeosciences(presently associate editor for the journal). He chairs the International Scientific Committee of the meeting The Oceans in a High-CO2 World (Hobart, 2016).