Sarah
Cornell
PhD
Associate professor, principal researcher
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- Biogeochemistry
- Earth system science
- Integrative methods
- Global governance
- Environmental policy
Sarah Cornell's transdisciplinary research focuses on the global dimensions of sustainability.
Cornell leads a transdisciplinary team of researchers who aim to characterise the global ‘safe operating space for humanity’ in applicable ways, Since 2011, she has coordinated SRC’s research on Earth resilience and nurtured key international collaborations in the growing community of researchers advancing planetary boundaries science together with practitioners who use the framework.
Cornell has a research background in marine and atmospheric chemistry. She obtained her PhD in 1996 from the University of East Anglia, UK, where she did postdoctoral research on the global nitrogen cycle before moving into transdisciplinary sustainability research. She worked on integrated approaches to environmental management, mainly of wetlands and coastal zones. Later, she turned to issues of global environmental change and societies' responses to today's sustainability challenges.
She has combined her research with international science coordination for several years, helping bridge various knowledge communities in environmental change science. She has also contributed to the science-policy interface work of SwedBio. And she has occasionally worked as a sustainability consultant, addressing issues ranging from local participatory processes for community planning to the assessment of global environmental risks.
Cornell is involved in several forums where interdisciplinary science interfaces with policy, business and wider society. She has served as a trustee and vice president of the international Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, a learned society and membership body for all marine professionals. She co-chairs the executive committee of IHOPE (Integrated History and Future of People on Earth), a Future Earth project. Cornell has been a contributing author and expert reviewer for IPCC Working Group II. She is an editorial advisory board member of the Journal of Critical Realism.
She leads the course Social-Ecological Systems: Challenges and Approaches in the SRC Master’s programme, and teaches Challenges of the Anthropocene, an introduction to global change science and policy.
Throughout her career, Cornell has championed university, national and EU initiatives to support women, working parents, and contract research staff working in science.
Supervision
Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez, PhD candidate, main supervisor
Daniel I. Avila-Ortega, PhD candidate, co-supervisor
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