Dr Hartl is an Associate Professor of Marine Biology, specializing in Marine Ecotoxicology in the Centre for Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology (CMBB), Institute of Life and Earth Sciences, at Heriot-Watt University. He is also Director of the CMBB and Director of Studies for the MSc cluster in Marine, Environment and Climate Change (shttp://www.hw.ac.uk/marinemsc). Dr Hartl represents the Marine Alliance for Science & technology, Scotland (MASTS) on the Scottish Government’s Marine Litter Advisory Group Steering Committee.

He received an MSc from the University of Vienna (1996) in Biology (Zoology/Marine Ecology) and a PhD from the University of Southampton (2000). Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Cork (2001-2006), he took up a position as Lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He was president of the Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society (2010-2012) and serves on Review Panels for FORMAS.

Latest Paper

Jones, D.O.B., Arias, M.B., Van Audenhaege, L., Blackbird, S., Boolukos, C., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Copley, J.T., Dale, A., Evans, S., Fleming, B.F.M., Gates, A.R., Grant, H., Hartl, M.G.J., Huvenne, V.A.I., Jeffreys, R.M., Josso, P., King, L.D., Simon-Lledó, E., Le Bas, T., Norman, L., O’Malley, B., Peacock, T., Shimmield, T., Stewart, E.C.D., Sweetman, A.K., Wardell, C., Aleynik, D., Glover, A.G., 2025. Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08921-3.