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Doris Abele is an Antarctic marine biologist based at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany. She leads the research group working on Stress Physiology and Aging in Marine Invertebrates and also the Ecology Polar regions And Coasts in the changing Earth System (PACES) programme.

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Antje Boetius is a German marine biologist presently serving as professor of geomicrobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen. She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, with 2.5 million euros in funding, in March 2009 for her study of sea bed microorganisms that affect the global climate. She was the first person to describe anaerobic oxidation of methane, and believes the Earth's earliest life forms may have subsisted on methane in the absence of molecular oxygen. She has also suggested such life forms may be able to reduce the rate of climate change in future. She is one of the laureates of the 2018 Environment Prize Dr Boetius won the Erna Hamburger Prize in 2019.

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Carl Chun was a German marine biologist.

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Felix Anton Dohrn FRS FRSE was a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the first zoological research station in the world, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy.

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Karin Dubsky is a German-Irish marine ecologist working in Trinity College Dublin, notable as an environmental activist, the coordinator and co-founder of Coastwatch Europe, an environmental NGO and a member of the European Environmental Bureau.

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Katrin Linse is a German marine biologist, best known for her work on discovering new Antarctic and deep sea species.

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Karin Lochte is a German oceanographer, researcher, and climate change specialist. In 2007, she became director of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven as well as chairman of the management committee of Jacobs University Bremen.

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Karl Heinrich Mertens, was a German botanist and naturalist, and son of the botanist Franz Carl Mertens.

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Bettina Meyer is a German Antarctic researcher, best known for her work on the ecology and physiology of invertebrates in the pelagic zone. She is the head of the ecophysiology of pelagic key species working group at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).