Hannah Brocke (PhD)

Co-Founder

Bremen, Bremen, Germany17 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founder of innovative marine technology company.
Expert in seafloor health and biodiversity mapping.
Active contributor to international ocean advocacy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Marine Technology expert with a focus on sustainability and data-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

StrategyBusiness DevelopmentMarine ScienceAiResearch DesignProject ManagementBusiness SolutionsSustainable DevelopmentEducational Outreach

Other Skills

partnershipsautomated data processingdata analysissupervisionconference organizationcultural collaborationnature excursionslecturingResearchManagementAdvanced Scientific Diverdata analysesBoat licences (sea and inland)radio license for sea-going ships

About

Hannah Brocke is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of PlanBlue. She has a background combining business, technology development, entrepreneurship and marine science. PlanBlue has developed groundbreaking technology to create scalable health and biodiversity maps of the seafloor, integrating advanced imaging, underwater navigation and AI based automated data processing pipeline for full automation. The result: highly detailed geo-referenced maps that provide concurrent data on biodiversity, health, pollution, biomass, carbon sequestration potential and materials. Hannah leads on strategy, partnerships, and business development. She is also an ocean advocate and an active contributor to white papers and international communities.

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

World geospatial industry council (wgic)

WGIC Board member

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Planblue

2 roles

PlanBlue Board member

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Co-founder & CSO

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 4 mos

PlanBlue provides automated health, carbon, pollution and biodiversity data of the seafloor, focussing on the blue carbon industry, offshore wind, aquaculture and coastal development.
I lead on strategy, partnerships, and business development. As part of my role I am an active contributor to white papers, conferences and international communities, including the World Economic Forum Uplink program, UN Decade of Ocean Science, Horasis Vision community, Sustainable Ocean Alliance, ESA Business Incubation Centre, and World Geospatial Industry Council.

strategypartnershipsbusiness developmentautomated data processingmarine scienceAI

Side project

Entrepreneurship

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs

Since 2013, I have actively explored business solutions that combine environmental protection with economical potential. At that time, I worked all around the world together with local people from various cultures. Through this, I have directly seen the need for sustainable development, however I also became aware of the different and sometimes ambiguous political and economic structures at play.

business solutionssustainable developmentcultural collaboration

Max planck institute for marine microbiology

PhD and Post Doc Scientist - Human impacts on the oceans

Jan 2010 – Jan 2018 · 8 yrs · Bremen

Field of research: Human impacts on the oceans (coral reefs)
Responsibilities: Designed, managed, navigated, analyzed, wrote up research projects; supervised and coordinated master students (12)
Academic visits abroad: Guadeloupe, French Polynesia, Curaçao, Australia, Costa Rica
Organized conferences (for young scientists): 3
Scholarships: 4; Prizes: 2
In the same time period, I also worked partly at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, ZMT Bremen; at CRIOBE - Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (Marine Environment and Resources); CARMABI reasearch station

research designproject managementdata analysissupervisionconference organization