Mayalen Zubia was a lecturer at the University of French Polynesia from 2013 to 2023. Her research activities focus on the diversity of tropical marine flora (macroalgae and cyanobacteria) in the Indo-Pacific coral reefs, in using the integrative taxonomy (morphology, genetic, chemical ecology and microbial community) to better understand the variability of floral assemblages under natural and anthropogenic disturbances (overfishing, pollution, disease, …). In parallel, she’s working on numerous applied research projects for the valorization of this algal diversity.