Thünen: Simons, Sarah, Dr.

Dr. Sarah Simons

Herwigstraße 31
27572 Bremerhaven

Innovation and further development of bio-economic models (e.g. FishRent, FLBEIA)
Economics and Management in fisheries and aquaculture
Impact (e.g. of climate change) on marine ecosystems, fisheries and aquaculture
Alternative production systems and development strategies in fisheries and aquaculture

Team leader of the economics unit
Socio-economic evaluation and bio-economic impact assessment of management measures in fisheries and aquaculture
Comparison across sectors and simulations of different production systems
Contributions to Advisory Committees of the European Union (STECF) and ICES committees
Support in conducting third-party funded research projects

Since 2011: Research scientist at the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries
2011 - 2014: PhD within the VECTORs EU project at the Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries (TI) and the Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries science (IHF) at the University of Hamburg, “Integrating biological components into a spatially explicit, complex economic model for fisheries management evaluations: The North Sea saithe fishery as a case study”
2009 - 2011: Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Ghent (Belgium), Algarve (Portugal) and Paris (France) and the NOAA, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA (United States). Master thesis: "Quantifying catch performance of Turtle Excluder Devices in the Northwest Atlantic bottom trawl fishery"
2010: Research assistant at the Laboratoire Arago, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls/Mer, France
2009 - 2010: Researcher within the BIOMARES-Life project at the Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2009: Research assistant at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Hamburg, Germany
2008: Assistant at the Institute for Marine Biology, Isola de Giglio, Italy
2006 - 2009: Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Hamburg. Bachelor Thesis: "Conflict management in juvenile spectacled parrotlets-comparison between singletons and siblings."

Working Group - Committee	Tasks
*ICES*
Working Group on Economics (WGECON)	WGECON addresses the challenge of bringing fisheries economics into ICES science and advice.
Working Group on Mixed Fisheries Advice for the North Sea (WGMIXFISH-ADVICE, WGMIXFISH-METHODS)	WGMIXFISH produces management advice and options which take into account the consequences of technical interactions in multistock, multigear fisheries.

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