Inmaculada Frutos

Inmaculada Frutos obtained her PhD from the University of Alcalá in Spain (2006) after a pioneer study on the subtidal suprabenthic communities in the NE Atlantic waters of Spain. Her research is mainly focused on the characterization of suprabenthic crustaceans (mainly peracarids) in deep-sea waters: study of biodiversity within an ecological approach, spatial and temporal evolution of assemblages in relation to abiotic variables and its trophic role in the marine benthic food webs. All of them within a robust systematic knowledge which achieves the description of new species.
After her PhD degree, she has enhanced her qualification while studying peracarid collections (Amphipods, isopods, mysids, cumaceans and tanaids) in numerous international European Institutions as: Spanish Institute of Oceanography (La Coruña and Santander, Spain), University of Bordeaux (Marine Station Arcachon, France), Center for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS Lowestoft, UK), Zoologisches Museum der Universität Hamburg (Germany), Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France), University of Łódź (Poland), Ifremer (Brest, France). Her research comprises her active participation in expeditions, mainly working with benthic sledges: she has already worked on the sea for more than 30 expeditions carried out mainly in the NE Atlantic Ocean (North Sea, Bay of Biscay, off NW Iberian Peninsula, tropical N Atlantic and Puerto Rico Trench), but also in the Pacific (Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and New Caledonian waters) and the Indian Ocean (Saya de Malha Bank).
She is currently working as Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz in Poland.