Prof. Paul Tréguer is Emeritus Professor at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France. He is internationally recognised for his contributions to chemical oceanography and marine biogeochemistry, with a particular focus on the polar oceans and coastal waters of Europe. His research has advanced the understanding of marine ecosystems in the context of global environmental change.

Prof. Tréguer is the founder of the European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM) and of the Europôle Mer, both major initiatives to promote interdisciplinary marine research in Europe. He also served as Director of EUR-OCEANS, the European Network of Excellence dedicated to studying the impacts of global change on marine ecosystems.

He has received several prestigious distinctions, including the Georges Millot Medal in 2013 from the French Academy of Sciences (in the sciences of the universe), and election as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) in 2016.

Prof. Paul Tréguer has served as Member of the Presidium of the European Academy of Sciences across two mandates: March 2015 – February 2019; March 2019 – February 2023, extended until April 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (in accordance with the EurASc Bylaws).