Dr. Maja Schlüter is a researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre studying the dynamics of social-ecological systems (SESs) in the face of environmental or social change. She focuses particularly on how feedbacks between human action and ecological dynamics determine their co-evolution and sustainability. Her research interests include cooperation in the commons under changing environmental conditions, social-ecological regime shifts and traps; and opportunities for transformation. She combines simulation modelling with empirical studies of SESs, such as irrigation in Bali; water management in the Amudarya river basin; and marine governance in the Baltic Sea. The aim is to identify patterns of social-ecological interactions that are common across cases and to understand their role for governance and resilience. Maja has a background in ecology and system science and has worked at the Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig-Halle; Princeton University and the Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin. She heads the ERC funded group SES-LINK.