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Natalya Gallo is a marine ecologist and biological oceanographer in the research group at the Department of Biological Sciences, and is an affiliate of the . Her current research focuses on the relationship between dissolved oxygen and deep sea community ecology and how climate-driven oxygen loss affects mesopelagic and seafloor-associated communities in West Norwegian fjords.

She is working with Dr. Anne Gro Salvanes as part of the project, where she leads WP4 on changes in community structure and trophic interactions under hypoxia. She also collaborates with colleagues at the Institute of Marine Research, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´'s Geophysical Institute, and NORCE as part of the , where she leads WP3 on biophysical interactions. 

Her tasks involve research cruise participation, deep sea community analysis, trophic analysis, trace element analysis of otoliths, supervision of Fisheries and Marine Biology Master students, and teaching in and . 

Prior to arriving to Bergen, she lived in San Diego, California where she received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the at UC San Diego. Her examined how ocean deoxygenation affects deep sea fish community ecology, with a focus on oxygen minimum zones and eastern boundary upwelling systems. She received the UCSD Chancellor's Dissertation Award for Oceanography and was recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for her Ph.D. work. After receiving her Ph.D., she worked as a quantitative fisheries and ecology postdoc with the at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

Her overarching interest is in how climate change impacts fish communities and fisheries and how scientific research can support sustainable ocean management and development. She is passionate about the science-policy interface and has participated in seven climate- and ocean-focused United Nations Conferences, and took part in the at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. She is involved in the Early Career Ocean Professionals group of the , the Climate Change working group, and the . She is also on the advisory council for the , an interdisciplinary PhD programme between the University of Bergen and the University of the South Pacific.