Geographer Kimberley Peters appointed

Dr. Kimberley Peters has been appointed to a joint professorship in Marine Governance at the Institute for the Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven.

Peters does research at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity of the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB). Previously, she was a lecturer in human geography at the University of Liverpool, UK. Peters studied geography at Cardiff University and the Royal Holloway College of the University of London, where she completed her PhD in 2011. After working as a Teaching Associate at the University of Sheffield and as a Lecturer at Aberystwyth University she moved to Liverpool. There, in 2019, she became a Reader.

Peters is the first social scientist to join the interdisciplinary team of the HIFMB. Her speciality is marine geography. She researches the social, cultural and political meaning of the oceans, in particular rules and governance mechanisms for using and protecting the seas.