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Marta Söffker is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of East Anglia (UEA) School of Environmental Sciences and serves as the UK National Focal Point for the United Nations World Ocean Assessment. She works one day weekly at UEA to foster collaborations with Cefas through the Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas (CCSUS). Her primary affiliation is with Cefas, where she leads the Ecosystems Change Science Theme, focusing on quantitative ecology in deep-sea ecosystems, marine protected areas, and fisheries sustainability.
Education: PhD in Biology from the University of Exeter (2011). Teaching Experience: Former Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Exeter, with over 850 hours of teaching and supervision experience, including contributions to modules like Population Ecology and Management and Biodiversity & Sustainability.
Research Interests: Human-ecosystem interactions, behavioral ecology, environmental impacts on group dynamics, marine mammal adaptation, and fisheries-climate interactions. She has contributed to international policy bodies like CCAMLR and IWC, and her work aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals related to marine conservation and sustainable development.
Grants & Collaborations: Collaborations with institutions globally, focusing on Antarctic, South Pacific, and Indian Ocean ecosystems. Her research emphasizes big data integration for policy advice and ecosystem resilience under climate change.
Labs/Teams: Leads Cefas' Ecosystems Change Science Theme and contributes to the CCSUS collaborative framework with UEA.
