15/04/2022
Elena Ojea is a senior researcher at CIM-Universidade de Vigo (Spain) currently leading the Future Oceans Lab, conducting research on adaptation solutions for marine social-ecological systems that allow for sustainable management, equity and livelihood support.
She was granted in 2016 with an European Research Council with an ERC Starting Grant for the project CLOCK: Climate Adaptation to shifting stocks, where she is looking at fisheries management regulations threatened by climate change.
Elena holds an undergrad in Environmental Sciences and a PhD in Economics, and has experience as a post-doc and research fellow at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), and as a visiting scholar at the Bren School for Environmental Science and Policy (USA).
She is currently involved in climate risk and vulnerability assessments in two European projects (FutureMARES and MPA-Adapt), funded by H2020 and Interreg-Med program.
She is one of the co-authors of the Blue papers on the future of seafood and the impacts of climate change on the ocean economy, commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.
Since 2018, she is contributing to working group II on impacts and adaptation, as lead author in the oceans chapter, of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report.
