Julia Schnetzer, was born in 1985 in Munich, and has been conducting research on marine micro and macro organisms for years and years now. She studied Biology at the University of California in Merced and at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and earned her PhD in Marine Microbiology at the Max Planck Institute in Bremen. Between 2017 and 2020 she was scientific coordinator of the internationally touring exhibition Ocean Plastics Lab, focussing on marine plastic pollution. From 2022 to 2024 she worked as a scientist for the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, and for the start-up Seafields conducting research on the question whether brown algae sargassum could help fight against the climate crisis. Alongside her research, she works as a freelance science communicator in different formats. She provides consultation and writes children’s books, as well as for the TerraX knowledge column. She used to be author and speaker for the P.M. Podcast “Sag mal du, als Biologin” (What would you say, as a biologist), appeared in several formats on the German children’s channel KIKA and was host for the Arte twitch programme “Behind the Story”. Always pursuing her goal of imparting scientific information for a broad audience and in an understandable manner.