M.Sc. Jean-François Blanc will publicly defend his doctoral thesis in Environmental and Marine Biology with a thesis entitled Biodiversity patterns among Fucus vesiculosus belts – Factors associated with algal and invertebrate diversity in the Baltic Sea.

Docent, Senior Researcher Sofia Wikström, Stockholm University, Sweden, will serve as opponent and Docent, Senior Researcher Sonja Salovius-Laurén, Åbo Akademi University, as custos.