Winnie is a marine biologist with a PhD in plastics pollution, specialising in the long-term fate and impacts of microplastics on ecosystems, with a focus on understanding sources and finding solutions.
She is a lecturer at Bangor University, UK. Winnie brings a wealth of scientific expertise, and a passion for communicating science and building community to inspire action on global challenges. She has spoken at the UK and European Parliament, the UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, and she leads working groups within the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty – supporting the development of science-informed solutions to plastic pollution.
Her research has taken her to some of the most remote environments on the planet, and she led the science programme on eXXpedition’s Round the World voyage in 2019-20. She now returns as our Mission Leader for eXXpedition Arctic.
