The 2025 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Biological Production, Ecology/Environment
• Achievement:
  Contribution to our understanding of marine ecosystems in a changing Earth, especially through pioneering research on Blue Carbon

Education

1982	B.S. in biology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
1987	Ph.D. in limnology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Professional Experience

1989-1990	Tenure Scientist (=Assistant Professor), Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
1990-1998	Research Scientist (Associate Professor), The Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies, CSIC
1999-2015	Research Professor, The Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Mallorca, CSIC
2011-2015	Director and Winthrop Professor, The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Australia
2012-2015	Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Marine Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2014-2016	Adjunct Professor at Trømso University, Norway
2015-2020	Professor of Marine Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2014-2016	Associate Director, Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2016-2018	Director, Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2017-2022	Adjunt Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark
2020-	Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and Tarek Ahmed Juffali Chair in Marine Ecology of the Red Sea Research Center and Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Academic Journals

• Duarte, C.M., Middleburg, J.J., Caraco, N. (2005) Major role of marine vegetation on the ocean carbon cycle. Biogeosciences 2: 1-8.
• Nellemann, C., Corcoran, E., Duarte, C.M., Valdés, L., De Young, C., Fonseca, L., Grimsditch, G. (eds) (2009) Blue Carbon: the role of healthy oceans in binding carbon: a rapid response assessment. UNEP, ISBN: 978-82-7701-060-1.
• Duarte, C.M., Losada, I.J., Hendriks, I.E., Mazarrasa, I., Marbà, N. (2013) The role of coastal plant communities for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Nature Climate Change 3: 961-968.

Awards

2001	G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award, The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
2007	National Science Award of Spain in Natural Resources
2009	King James I Award on Environmental Research, Spain
2010	Honorari Doctorate from the Université de Québec a Montréal, Canada
2011	Prix d’Excellence, The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas, Denmark
2011	Honorari Doctorate from Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2016	Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal for Excellence in Biogeosciences, European Geophysical Union, Germany
2016	Sustaining Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
2018	Blaise Pascal Medal for Earth and Environmental Sciences, European Academy of Sciences
2018	Fellow of the European Academy of Science and Technology
2018	The Carlo Heip International Award for Excellent in Marine Biodiversity
2018	The Global Advisory Board of “The Red Sea Project” of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
2018	The UN High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy Expert Group
2019	Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology, Spain
2019	BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology, Spain
2021	Keeling Curve Prize
2021	Academic of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain
2023	MADBLUE 2023 5 Oceans Award
2023	HIC Summitt on Regenerative Tourism 2023 Award for Ocean Conservation