Catarina Frazão Santos is a Research Scientist and Lecturer at the University of Lisbon, a Researcher at MARE, and an Visiting Researcher at NOVA-SBE. Her research focuses on ocean planning, management and policy, aiming to develop interdisciplinary work to support ocean sustainability. She is currently leading a team of international scientists under project OCEANPLAN, on how marine spatial planning can be affected by, and adapt to global climate change.