Dr Clara Manno is a Biological Oceanographer at British Antarctic Survey, BAS (Cambridge, UK), and an honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). Manno has previously worked at the National Institute of Oceanography and Geophysics (Italy), the University of Tromso (Norway) and at the University of Perpignan (France), where she developed a strong multidisciplinary expertise on Polar Marine Ecosystem. Her main research interest is to understand how human-induced environmental changes (i.e. ocean warming, ocean acidification, pollution) affect the marine ecosystem and biogeochemical cycle. She adopts a combined approach, merging laboratory analysis, in situ observation, field experiments and modelling.
Manno is co-chairing the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Plastics in Polar Environments expert group (SPEG) and she has been awarded the Future Leaders Fellowship by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation to evaluate the impact of microplastics on the oceanic carbon export (CUPIDO).
The page was updated in June 2025.
