Prof. Alberto C. Naveira Garabato is an oceanographer interested in the processes governing ocean circulation and its role in climate, with a particular focus on the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

He holds the Regius Chair in Ocean Sciences at the University of Southampton and is an Honorary Fellow of the British Antarctic Survey.

His work has been recognised with the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award (2008) and the Nansen Medal (2023) of the European Geosciences Union, a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2014), the Challenger Medal of the Challenger Society for Marine Science (2020), and Fellowship of the Royal Society (2026).

He was the lead proponent of the RoSES programme, which assessed the role of the Southern Ocean in the global carbon cycle; and the founding director of the NEXUSS Centre of Doctoral Training, which is supporting 45 PhD students across ten UK institutions in the use of cutting-edge sensor and autonomous system technologies for environmental science.

He is a current awardee of an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council to investigate the role of Southern Ocean sea ice-ocean processes in configuring global ocean circulation.