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

With a university background in Social Sciences, Mirjana Binggeli has always been fascinated by people, their different cultures and their ways of life, with a main focus on contemporary issues.

Preferring the cold climates to the warm countries, she has travelled northern Europe and Finnish Lapland where she caught the polar virus. After a trip in Svalbard and in Greenland, she became an expedition guide onboard vessels 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.

Ole Ellekrog

Ole Ellekrog is a journalist from Denmark. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from The Danish School of Media and Journalism and a joint Erasmus Mundus Master’s degree in Journalism, Globalisation, and the Media from Aarhus University, Denmark, and Charles University, Czechia. He has bylines in a number of journalistic outlets, both Danish and international, including Pellicle Magazine, the New Arab, and The Guardian. He has always been interested in what life could be like beyond his own, and in 2022 and 2023 he got a big taste of that as he spent a year in Greenland, working with Greenlandic research as a Communication Manager for the research dissemination organisation Arctic Hub. Now, whenever he’s back in Europe, he misses the beauty and the wildness of the Arctic.