Babette Hoogakker is a scientist, working on our understanding of the interactions of climate change and the cycling of oxygen, carbon and nutrients in the ocean.
She is a holder of a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. Her team researches why, and to what extent, seawater dissolved oxygen contents may change in response to global heating.
Previously Babette was a panel member during the public debate ‘Oceans in crisis’ 2019, as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival. In 2018 she was awared a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Earth Sciences.
Babette did her PhD at the University of Southampton, followed postdocs (Cambridge and Bristol), a NERC fellowship (Oxford), before joining Heriot-Watt University in 2017.
