María Gelado Caballero is a senior lecturer at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where she teaches chemical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, dissolution chemistry and marine pollution.

She has participated extensively in marine-maritime projects, notably seeking to address the challenge of pollution tied to expanded maritime activities necessary for blue sector growth. These most recently include MARPOCS (Multinational response and preparedness to Oil and Chemical Spills), MARENDA (Support to the Maritime Transport Sector in Africa) and SMARTPORT (Port Environmental Management Strategy between the Canary Islands and the Regions of Souss Massa Drâa and Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra).

Her most recent work includes the monitoring of marine plastic debris in marinas, describing the wet and dry deposition fluxes of soluble elements, examining the risk of ballast-borne invasive species and studying the phytoplankton and heterotrophic response to atmosphereic dust deposition.

Professor Gelado Caballero's LinkedIn profile can be found here.