Dr Eko Siswanto earned his Doctorate degree in 2006 from Nagasaki University, Japan. He was then appointed as a postdoctoral researcher from 2006 to 2007 at the Sekai National Fisheries Research Institute – Japan Fisheries Research Agency, as a researcher from 2007 to 2011 at the Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center (HyARC), Nagoya University, and as a senior lecturer from 2011 to 2013 at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Currently, he is a research scientist at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) since 2013 and concurrently as a temporary lecturer at Yamaguchi University since 2016. For more than ten years, Dr Siswanto has been utilizing satellite remote sensing observations to assess the impacts of climate changes and human activities on the marine ecosystems over the region encompassing the Asia-Pacific and the Arctic/subarctic marine environments.