Eugenio Fraile Nuez, born in Gran Canaria (Spain) in 1976, he graduated and Ph.D in Marine (Dr. Physical Oceanography) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. His
Ph.D obtained the extraordinary prize for the best doctoral thesis in the Experimental Sciences area. Since 2009 Dr. Fraile is a Research at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) at the Canary Islands, Tenerife. His research on Climate Change focuses on the variability of the thermohaline properties, heat and mass transport of large-scale ocean processes. Dr. Frailes research has resulted in over 53 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, he has been involved in more than 30 national and international Research Projects and he has participated in numerous oceanographic cruises, accumulating over 1,500 days at sea on different national and international research vessels around the world. He has been the Physical Oceanography leader of Malaspina project and the IP of Bimbache, Vulcano I-II and Vulcana projects for the study of the variation of the physical-chemical, biological and geological properties of
submarine volcano of El Hierro Island. Recently, Dr. Fraile has been named Advisor for the National Maritime Security Council of the Spanish Government in Submarine Vulcanological Risk and Physical Oceanography Advisor for the National Maritime Plan from the Fomento Ministry. Dr. Fraile is a member of the Emergency Plan of the Volcanic Risk at the Canary Islands (PEVOLCA) and also from the National Cell of Information and Hazard Analysis and Threats (CIARA) from the Spanish Government.