Dr. Vanessa Stelzenmüller

Research interests

Ecosystem based fisheries and marine management with emphasis on marine spatial planning and conflicts between fisheries and other uses and the marine ecosystems of the North Sea
Development of integrated modelling approaches and decision support tools to both assess spatial management options and to support the implementation of an ecosystem based fisheries and marine management
Development of spatial distribution models of marine resources and fisheries activities among others with the help of geostatistical methods and GIS
Evaluation of marine spatial planning scenarios concerning fisheries and marine living resources

Offshore Site Selection for a sustainable and multi-functional use of marine areas in heavily utilized seas with the North Sea as an example (OSS)
EU project: Preparatory Action on Maritime Spatial Planning in the North East Atlantic/North Sea/Channel Area (MASPNOSE)
EU project: Interaction in coastal waters: A roadmap to sustainable integration of aquaculture and fisheries (COEXIST)
EU project: Monitoring and evaluation of spatially managed areas (MESMA)
MSFD - Implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework directive – Definition and validation of indicators and initial assessment

since 2010: Marine Scientist at the Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg
2007 – 2009: Marine Scientist at the Centre of Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft, UK
2005 – 2007: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Marine Science (ICM), Barcelona, Spain funded by a postdoctoral grant of the DFG
2005: Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the marine Environment, Oldenburg, (Germany) in cooperation with the Federal Institute of Sea fisheries, Hamburg (Germany) funded by a doctoral grant of the DBU
2001: Diplom (MSc) Marine Environmental Science, Oldenburg University, Germany.