Andrés Ospina-Alvarez is a marine scientist with expertise in connectivity, network analysis, and ecological modeling. He is currently a contracted researcher at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) and is benefiting from a contract associated with the María de Maeztu Excellence accreditation awarded to IMEDEA by the Spanish State Research Agency (MICIU-AEI).

His research focuses on marine spatial ecology, including the transport, dispersal, and recruitment of early-stage marine species, habitat modeling, and spatial planning approaches that promote population connectivity. He is an expert in network analysis, which he uses to address complex ecological problems by integrating the study of marine organisms during their pelagic life transported by marine currents.

Ospina-Alvarez’s expertise in coupling hydrodynamic and individual-based models and using graph theory tools for the analysis of marine connectivity is widely recognized. His recent interests and projects have focused on analyzing the effects of rapid global change, seafood traceability, and ecosystem services provision provided by Marine Protected Areas. He has worked on research projects in Spain, New Zealand, Chile, and around the Mediterranean Sea.

Andrés Ospina-Alvarez received his doctorate in Marine Sciences from the University of Barcelona in 2012 and has received several awards and recognitions, including a Ramon y Cajal grant from the MCIU (Spain), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie H2020 action from the European Union, a Juan de la Cierva incorporation grant from the MCIN / AEI (Spain) and NextGeneration EU / PRTR, a Vicenç Mut grant from the Government of the Balearic Islands, an aid for a FONDECYT postdoctoral contract from the Government of Chile, an aid for JAE doctoral contract from the CSIC and several scholarships for academic excellence during his undergraduate degree.