MEET THE TEAM

Passion, expertise, and a shared love for the polar Region

At Polar Journal AG, our team brings together diverse backgrounds and skills to deliver captivating stories, in-depth insights, and reliable information about the polar regions. From journalists and researchers to creative minds behind the scenes, every member is committed to showcasing the beauty, challenges, and importance of the Arctic and Antarctic. Get to know the people who make it all happen.

Dr. Michael Wenger

Michael Wenger, born in 1972 in Switzerland, has always been passionate about travel and exploration. His love for marine life began on a trip to Australia at 18. He later studied biology, specializing in fish biology, at the University of Basel. During his PhD on fish health, he discovered his passion for the polar regions while working as a tour guide on expedition vessels.

19 years and numerous polar trips later, Michael remains captivated by the icy world. After years of fish ecology research, he became a scientific consultant and guide, realizing the need for greater polar knowledge. This led him to co-found Polar Journal AG, an information and news platform dedicated to the polar regions, where he has served as CEO since 2022.

Mirjana Binggeli

Editor and assistant to the management, Mirjana Binggeli contributes to the strategic development of editorial content and coordinates the cultural sector of polar journal.net. Her passion for cold climates has led her from Lapland to Antarctica, including Svalbard and Greenland, where she notably worked as an expedition guide. Holding a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Lausanne, she focuses particularly on contemporary issues affecting the polar regions and regularly writes on a variety of topics, such as society, culture, art, as well as wildlife, climate, and geophysical phenomena in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Camille Lin

Camille Lin became fascinated with the poles in 2017, during a wintering on the French scientific station in the Kerguelen archipelago. During this almost total immersion in sometimes lunar landscapes, with animals easy to approach and in a tormented weather, he had the time and the desire to write. The following year, he embarked on a journalistic approach with a passion for science, polar environments and navigation. In order to feed his curiosity of maritime horizons, he embarked on fishing trips, on a hospital ship, and on cruise ships in Antarctica. He also writes for the French maritime magazine Le Chasse-Marée, or for the magazine Ça m’intéresse.

Julia Hager

Julia Hager’s passion for the polar regions and seafaring started early: while studying marine biology in 2005, she took part in scientific shipboard expeditions to Antarctica, the Bering Sea, the North Pacific and the North Atlantic. During her two-year stay in Oregon, she encountered the ubiquitous plastic pollution on the beaches and her love of marine life was shocked by the sight of animals injured by plastic. This global environmental issue has been on her mind for ten years and she shares her experience and knowledge of plastic pollution with people of all ages, including polar travellers in her role as a tour guide.