Julia Schnetzer

Julia Schnetzer was born in Munich in 1985. She studied biology in Cologne, at the University of California, Merced, and at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. She went on to earn a doctorate in marine microbiology at the Max Planck Institute in Bremen. From 2017 to 2020, she served as scientific coordinator of the international traveling exhibition Ocean Plastics Lab, which focused on plastic pollution in the oceans.