Claudio Sáez Avaria is a Chilean and Spanish researcher, author, marine biologist and environmental biotechnologist.
Early life and education Sáez Avaria obtained his degree in Environmental Engineering from the Universidad de Valparaíso in Chile. He completed a Ph.D. in Marine Studies at University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom in 2014 and later joined Universidad de Playa Ancha as a full-time researcher after working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
Career Sáez Avaria was the director of the University of Playa Ancha's Coastal Environmental Research Laboratory and a researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies.
In 2019, he founded the Environmental HUB UPLA.
He is working as an associate professor in Marine Environmental Research and Development at the University of Alicante.
In 2025, Sáez Avaria was awarded the Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Marine Sustainability IV edition.
Selected publications
Removal of As from Tambo River Using Sodium Alginate from Lessonia trabeculata (Aracanto) Beca de Doctorado de Sáez-Avaria, Claudio Alejandro
Desalination brine effects beyond excess salinity: Unravelling specific stress signaling and tolerance responses in the seagrass Posidonia oceanica. Mechanisms of Copper Tolerance, Accumulation, and Detoxification in the Marine Macroalga Ulva compressa (Chlorophyta): 20 Years of Research
Environmental assessment in a shallow subtidal rocky habitat: Approach coupling chemical and ecological tools
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