Prof. Dr. Inna Sokolova is Professor and Chair of Marine Biology at the University of Rostock, Germany. She received Ph.D. from the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia, and worked as professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA (2001-2016) and the University of Rostock, Germany (since 2016). Her research focuses on ecological bioenergetics and the role of energy metabolism in setting tolerance limits to multiple stressors such as climate change, ocean acidification, hypoxia and pollution. She explores links between molecular and cellular stress responses, energy homeostasis, and whole-organism fitness consequences. She is editor-in-chief of Marine Environmental Research, a handling editor for Marine Ecology Progress Series and Nature Scientific Reports, and an author of >170 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.