Mauro Pinto will study oxygen fluxes in the Arabian Sea

What are you going to do?

"I'm going to join the FLOW lab led by Bastien Queste. Our research focuses on understanding oxygen fluxes in low-oxygen waters. In this matter, I'm going to work with microstructure data collected by gliders in the Arabian Sea to understand how turbulent processes modulate fluxes and oxygen budgets in the Oxygen Minimum Zone there."

What did you do before?

"I'm a geophysicist with a master's degree in oceanography from the University of Concepción in Chile. In my previous work, I studied turbulent oxygen fluxes in the Oxygen Minimum Zone off central Chile and the physical process that controls them. I also worked as a research technician at the Millennium Institute of Oceanography in Chile, where we focused our work on understanding the adaptability to a changing ocean and the Hadal Ocean. Recently, we achieved the deployment of a mooring in the Atacama trench at 7900 meter depth where we are going to have the first Integrated Deep-Ocean Observing System to get a better understanding of the origin and interconnection of tectonic and oceanographic processes through multi-parametric deep-sea observations."

What do you like to do when you are not working?

"I'm a sports fan, I like to play football and to be outside. Also, I love going for a dive to appreciate the mysterious ocean."

Something else you would like to tell us?

"In the next few years, I would like to complete the base of my academic training, but always with a social perspective, collaborating with great people, and learning the proper skills to make intra and interdisciplinary science. I have been in Sweden for only two weeks, but people have given me a warm welcome, and I'm completely sure that these goals could be achieved."

Interview: Karl-Johan Nylén