Sabine is a "la Caixa" Foundation Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellow. She has a PhD from the University of Oviedo (Spain) and a MSc and BSc from the University of Muenster (Germany). Her research focuses on the relationship between marine plastic pollution and invasive species dispersal, which she first explored in the Southeast Pacific (Chile) and is now studying in the North Atlantic at MARE-Madeira.