Oceanographer | Data Scientist | Science communicator
Postdoctoral Researcher
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Ostend, Belgium
Email: arianna.olivelli at vliz.be
I am a chemical oceanographer, with interests in understanding the impacts of human activities on marine climate change and environmental pollution. My expertise ranges from analysing the composition of seawater in the laboratory to leveraging data science and modelling techniques to investigate the distribution of chemicals at the regional and global scale.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Past, Present and Future Marine Climate Change group at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). In this role, I contribute to the InMOS project, funded by Schmidt Science, which aims to integrate models and observations of marine carbon, oxygen and heat across scales to further constrain their cycles in the ocean and Earth system.
I hold a PhD in Isotope Geochemistry from Imperial College London (2025). During my PhD I was part of the MAGIC and Data Learning research groups and my reseach contributed to the international marine geochemistry programme GEOTRACES.
Outside of the lab, I am passionate about communicating science to non-expert audiences and making STEM careers more accessible to under-represented groups. I am the Early Career Scientist Representative for the Ocean Sciences division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and a member of the GEOTRACES Early Career Scientist Committee.
If you are interested in collaborating on any scientific or outreach initiatives, do not hesitate to get in touch!
19/12/2025 - New paper out: The Arctic Ocean is a net sink for anthropogenic lead deposited into the Atlantic Ocean in Nature Communications - thanks Stephan Krisch (TU Braunschweig) for leading this effort!
7/10/2025 - I am back after three great research weeks in the USA. We had our annual InMOS meeting at the University of California, Santa Barbara and then I visited Seth Bushinsky's HI-Cycles group at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
25/09/2025 - New paper out: Using lead isotopes as tracers of ocean pollution in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.