Marie-Fanny Racault is a biological oceanographer with experience in studying climate impact on marine ecosystem resources, the oceanic carbon cycle, and microbial ecology, using satellite data, climate models and AI. She did her PhD at the UEA School of Environmental Sciences (2010) and then worked as a Senior Scientist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory. She is a Lead Author of the IPCC AR6 Working group 2 on Climate impacts and adaptation for both the Chapter on ocean and coastal ecosystems and the Summary for Policymakers that was published in February 2022. Since November 2021, she has returned to UEA to take the lead on the next stage of developments on the ecosystem component of the PlankTOM model series, which will include the examination of the role of marine viruses and of ecosystem stability in a changing climate.