Maja Schlüter is an associated professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden, where she leads the SES-LINK group that is based on the ERC starting grant SESLINK and the ERC consolidator grant MuSES. Maja’s research focuses on the dynamics of social-ecological systems, particularly how feedbacks between human action and ecological consequences can lead to (un)sustainable social and ecological outcomes. Maja is particularly interested in how the diversity of human motivations and behavior, e.g. of resource users or political actors, impacts sustainability and resilience of human-environment systems. She combines agent-based modeling with empirical and experimental research to identify social-ecological mechanisms that may explain phenomena such as fishery collapse, poverty traps or policy adaptation to environmental change. 

Prior to her position at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Maja has worked at the UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig/Halle, in the lab of Simon Levin at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and the Leibniz Centre for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin.