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Isabella Bitetto has a permanent position as researcher at COISPA since 2009. She has a University degree in applied mathematics on stochastic discrete time models. She has participated in the development of fish population models and modelling using GLM, GAM, GAMM, data analysis and checking routines. She is involved in the EU Data Collection Framework program since 2009 and has participated to the STECF-SGMED-EWG working groups since 2010 to date. Good skill in programming and using several stock assessment models, highly structured and data limited, including methods for Management Strategy Evaluation. She also work with preference modelling (e. g. Multi Criteria Decision Analysis – MCDA). She is a developer of several routines in R for data check and elaboration. She is the developer of the bio-economic BEMTOOL model.

Pierluigi Carbonara  is a senior researcher at COISPA since 1994. He has a PhD in Sciences and Technologies applied to the Environment. Fisheries scientist with 22 years of experience in fishery biology and aquaculture. He has a long experience on age reading and validation (otoliths, spines, vertebrae etc.), analysis of sex and maturity stage in fish, crustacean and cephalopods. He is involved in the EU Data Collection Framework since 2002, coordinating trawl surveys, discard and landing sampling projects. He is responsible of the Experimental Aquaculture Laboratory (EAL) and the Energetic Metabolism and Telemetry Laboratory (EMTEL). He is the author/co-author of more than 50 scientific publications.

Giuseppe Lembo is Chairman of COISPA. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of fishery and aquaculture. He is involved in the EU Data Collection Framework since 2002. He has participated and/or coordinated several EU and national research projects and he is the author/co-author of more than 50 scientific publications. During his career, he has been member of Scientific Committees and working groups of several organization including the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and the European Commission (DGMare and DGAgri). He is currently the chair of the Expert Group for Technical advice on the Organic Production (EGTOP) of the European Commission.

Tiziana Favia has a permanent position as an administrative officer at COISPA since 2018. She has a degree in Economics. She deals with the drafting of the budget and the financial reporting of ministerial and European projects.

Dr. Panagiota (Nota) Peristeraki is an associate researcher at HCMR, since 2003, and had a similar position at IMBC from 1989 to 2002. She holds a B.Sc. degree in Biology from the University of Athens and a PhD in fisheries and marine ecology from the University of Crete.

Dr. Peristeraki has been working in research projects dealing with large pelagic and demersal fish species since 1987. She is the national coordinator for the Mediterranean International Trawl Survey (MEDITS) in Greece, and has been involved in the large pelagic tagging campaign in the Mediterranean.

She has participated in several international research projects concerning fishery biology and dynamics of large pelagic, demersal and alien/invasive species and has published relevant scientific articles in journals and books. Regularly participates in the working groups of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). She is member of the MEDITS Steering Committee.

I am Full Professor of (International) Law. I teach courses on International Environmental Law, Law of the Sea, Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Legal Methods at bachelor, master and PhD level.

Dr Gerjan Piet of WMR (Wageningen UR) has been working for some 25 years on the development of the knowledge base to support environmental assessments and ecosystem-based management of maritime activities aimed at a sustainable exploitation of the marine environment. He is the author of more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has participated in and coordinated several EU-funded projects that involve operationalizing policy, indicators, environmental risk assessments, sustainable exploitation and the development of management strategies and their evaluation (e. g. EFEP, MEFEPO, INDECO, INDENT, MAFCONS, IMAGE, MEECE, ODEMM, AQUACROSS). He is a member of the European Topic Centre on inland, coastal and marine waters (ETC-ICM) of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and member or (has been) chair of several STECF and ICES working groups, all aimed at developing the knowledge base to support various marine conventions with sustainability at their core, including the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the EU Biodiversity Strategy, Common Fisheries Policy and Birds and Habitat Directives. His expertise revolves around the issue of sustainable exploitation of the marine environment spanning the whole breadth from data collection, indicator development and application, environmental- / cumulative effects assessments and operational integrated ecosystem-based management of maritime activities.

My research at Wageningen Marine Research focuses on marine governance, with special emphasis on the interactions between different uses of and developments on the North Sea (nature, food and energy).  In B-USEFUL, I am involved in identifying and engaging stakeholders, including the development of a serious game to map barriers and needs in marine biodiversity management (work package 1).