Amanda G. BENDIA

PhD in Microbiology from the University of São Paulo. Professor at the Oceanographic Institute of USP, where she works in the area of ecology and microbial evolution in extreme marine environments, with a focus on the deep ocean and Antarctica. She also studies extremophile bacteria and archaea in the context of astrobiology. She was a member of the Board of APECS-Brasil (National Committee of the Association of Early-Career Polar Researchers), as Coordinator of Education and Scientific Dissemination between 2018 and 2022. She is a member of the Brazilian Society of Astrobiology, of "Deep-sea Biology Society" and the "DOSI (Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative) Decade working group". She participated in four scientific expeditions to Antarctica by the Brazilian Antarctic Program, both to the Brazilian Antarctic Station Comandante Ferraz and aboard the Polar Ship Almirante Maximiano. She participated in the oceanographic expedition BIOIL (Shell / IO-USP) aboard the Noc Alpha Crucis and ProBioDeep (Shell / UFRJ) aboard the Fugro Aquarius.