 She is professor in Marine Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and an adjunct Professor at the University of Tromsø (Norway).Agusti completed a BSc at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1982 and a PhD at the same institution in 1989.Agusti studies the photosynthetic plankton and the metabolic balance of the oceans, with present goals focused in evaluate the impact of global change in the oceans.