Dr. Sarah Simons
- Address
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Herwigstraße 31
27572 Bremerhaven - Phone
- +49 471 94460 376
- Fax
- +49 471 94460 199
- sarah.simons@thuenen.de
Research interests
- Bio-economic impact of management strategies
- Fisheries management and economy
- Impacts on ecosystems and fisheries
- Modeling of biologically induced feedback mechanisms in marine systems
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Educational background and employment
- Since 2011: PhD-student within the VECTORs project at the Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries (TI) and the Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries science (IHF) at the University of Hamburg
- 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."