Fabio Marchese

Researcher, Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Joined

May 2024

Names

Fabio Marchese (Preferred)

Emails

****@kaust.edu.sa (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (kaust.edu.sa)

2020 – Present

Postdoc

Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan - Bicocca (unimib.it)

2016 – 2020

PhD student

Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan - Bicocca (unimib.it)

2013 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Alessandra Savini

2016 – 2020

PhD Advisor

Alessandra Savini

2013 – 2016

Expertise

Marine Geology

Present

Benthic Habitat Mapping

Present

Spatial analysis

Present

Publications

Impacts of Unoccupied Aerial Systems navigation and sensor technology on ultra-shallow bathymetry mapping
Brian Owain Nieuwenhuis, Marta Andrea Ezeta Watts, Malika Kheireddine, Javier Blanco-Sacristán, Ioana-Andreea Ciocănaru, Kasper Johansen, Natalie Dunn, Eesaa Harris, Fabio Marchese, Francesca Benzoni, Burton H. Jones
- International Journal of Remote Sensing
- Readers: Everyone
Seascape genomics uncovers contrasting population genetic structures in reef corals
Nicolas Oury, Yixin Wang, Jingyi Ma, Tullia I. Terraneo, Fabio Marchese, Federica Barreca, Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez, Silvia Vimercati, Michael L. Berumen, Raquel Peixoto, Gustav Paulay, Ibrahim Hoteit, Francesca Benzoni
- iScience
- Readers: Everyone
ReefNet: A Large-Scale, Taxonomically Enriched Dataset and Benchmark for Hard Coral Classification
Yahia Battach, Abdulwahab Felemban, Faizan Farooq Khan, Yousef A. Radwan, Xiang Li, Fabio Marchese, Sara Beery, Burton H Jones, Francesca Benzoni, Mohamed Elhoseiny
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Unprecedented 2020 coral bleaching reveals unexpected taxa-specific responses in the central Red Sea
Natalie Dunn, Parviz Tavakoli-Kolour, Fabio Marchese, Catherine S. McFadden, Laura Macrina, Marta Ezeta Watts, Megan K. B. Nolan, Francesca Giovenzana, Francesca Benzoni
- PLOS One
- Readers: Everyone
Deep-sea marine litter from visual surveys: New findings from offshore Al Wajh, Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)
Giorgio Castellan, Fabio Marchese, Thomas Lüdmann, Marco Taviani, Hildegard Westphal
- Regional Studies in Marine Science
- Readers: Everyone
Structure and complexity of a rariphotic coral ecosystem in the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea)
Giovanni Chimienti, Fabio Marchese, Sam J. Purkis, Viktor Nunes Peinemann, Lucía Pombo-Ayora, Marta Ezeta Watts, Tullia I. Terraneo, Michael L. Berumen, Ameer A. Eweida, Mattie Rodrigue, Francesca Benzoni
- Coral Reefs
- Readers: Everyone
Modelling the Habitat Distribution of the Endemic Azooxanthellate Coral Madracis interjecta From the Mesophotic to the Deep Red Sea
Megan K. B. Nolan, Pauline Falkenberg, Fabio Marchese, Marta A. Ezeta Watts, Natalie Dunn, Laura Macrina, Viktor Nunes‐Peinemann, Giovanni Chimienti, Silvia Vimercati, Tullia I. Terraneo, Mohammed Qurban, Vincent Pieribone, Carlos M. Duarte, Francesca Benzoni
- Ecology and Evolution
- Readers: Everyone
Integrative phylogenomics sheds light on the diversity and evolution of fluorescence in coral-dwelling gall crabs
Susanne Bähr, Sancia ET van der Meij, Tullia Terraneo, Nicolas Oury, Nico K. Michiels, Stephen Ogg, Fabio Marchese, Francesca Benzoni
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Readers: Everyone
Deep oxygen-depleted depressions in a Red Sea coral reef sustain resistant ecosystems
Shannon G Klein, Larissa Frühe, Anieka J Parry, Fabio Marchese, Megan K B Nolan, Elisa Laiolo, Kah Kheng Lim, Alexandra Steckbauer, Jessica Breavington, Christopher A Hempel, Kate von Krusenstiern, Froukje M van der Zwan, Eleonora Re, Taiba Alamoudi, Jacqueline V Alva Garcia, Silvia Arossa, Carlos Angulo-Preckler, Mattie Rodrigue, Vincent A Pieribone, Mohammad A Qurban et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
- PNAS Nexus
- Readers: Everyone
Seagrass-rafted large benthic foraminifera transported into the deep Red Sea
Marleen Stuhr, Hildegard Westphal, Fabio Marchese, Guillem Mateu-Vicens, Francesca Giovenzana, Thomas Lüdmann, Volker Vahrenkamp, Marco Taviani
- Scientific Reports
- Readers: Everyone

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