Flavio Affinito

Start-up founder 🌍 Fighting ocean plastic pollution 🌏 New sustainable sandals 🌎 Inspiring and empowering people

Flavio Affinito is a marine biologist and statistician turned entrepreneur with a strong background in ecological research, climate change, marine ecology, and animal metabolism at an international level.

He founded an impact startup called NuOceans, which focuses on tackling the issue of 3 billion pairs of unrecyclable flip flops produced annually, transforming them into fully circular sandals made from ocean plastic waste.

Flavio Affinito's educational achievements include a Baccalauréat with Distinction from European School Brussels III, a Master of Science in Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution with Distinction from Imperial College London, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a High 2:1 from Imperial College London.

His professional experience includes roles such as Principal Cofounder at NuOceans, Former Private Tutor, Former Research Supervisor at Deniz Memelileri Araştırma Derneği (DMAD), Former Peer Lead at Imperial College London, Former Maître-nageur sauveteur at Ethos Sports Center, and Former Principal Cofounder at Les Jeunes Entreprises asbl (LJE).