Bärbel Müller-Karulis received her PhD from the University of Latvia in 2010. Her research focuses on modeling the turnover of nitrogen and phosphorous in subsystems of the Baltic Sea. At Stockholm Resilience Centre, Bärbel works with the FORMAS project Regime Shifts in the Baltic Sea Ecosystem which looks at the linkages between biogeochemical and foodweb modeling as well as studying how ecosystem models capture regime shifts in the Baltic Sea.
Bärbel has co-chaired two ICES expert groups, the ICES/HELCOM Working Group on Integrated Assessments of the Baltic Sea (WGIAB) and the ICES Study Group on Baltic Sea Productivity Issues (SGPROD).