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Maja Schlüter is a Professor at Stockholm University, affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), where she conducts interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems (SES) and their governance. Her work integrates empirical analysis with computational modelling to address systemic challenges like regime shifts, poverty traps, and sustainability transformations.
- Education: PhD in Applied System Science from Osnabrück University
- Previous Positions: Visiting researcher at Princeton University, researcher at UFZ Helmholtz Centre and Leibniz Institute
Her research spans fisheries in the Baltic Sea and Mexico, agricultural systems in sub-Saharan Africa, and water governance in Central Asia. She leads two interdisciplinary teams—SES-LINK (funded by ERC grants) and CauSES (funded by the Swedish Research Council)—that bridge social sciences, philosophy, and natural sciences to refine causal reasoning and complexity-aware methodologies.
Recent publications focus on process-relational perspectives for sustainability transformations, empirically grounded agent-based models, and causal plurality in SES research. Her work emphasizes the interplay of social-ecological interdependencies, using dynamical systems and agent-based models to resolve trade-offs between simplicity and complexity.
Scientific Awards
- Swedish Research Council (VR) Interdisciplinary Research Environment (2019-2023)
- ERC Consolidator Grant (MuSES, 2017-2023)
- ERC Starting Grant (SES-LINK, 2012-2017)
- Branco Weiss Fellowship (2008-2009)
- Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship (2006-2007)
- Best Paper Award in Environmental Modeling and Software (2006)
- Robert Bosch Fellowship (1998-1999)
Schlüter supervises PhD candidates like Rodrigo Martinez Pena and collaborates with global teams across marine ecology, political science, and computer science. Her methodological innovations aim to bridge empirical data with theoretical exploration for real-world sustainability solutions.
