Emma Verling

Emma is a research fellow at the MaREI Centre at University College Cork, Ireland and is currently coordinating Marine SABRES a four-year, Horizon Europe funded project, which will co-design and test a Simple Social Ecological Systems approach (the Simple SES) to rapidly enable and upscale Ecosystem Based Management across Europe and beyond. She is also a Demonstration Area Lead on the A-A Agora Project, also funded by Horizon Europe, which supports the ambitious targets set in the European Commission Mission to “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030” and, in this way, to meet the requirements on innovative and transformative change. Emma’s background is in Marine Ecology and she holds a BSc and a PhD from University College Cork. Prior to joining MaREI, she spent three years working on the transfer of marine Non-Indigenous Species at the Smithsonian Institute in the USA before spending ten years at the Joint Nature Conservation Committee as a scientific advisor to UK Government.