Marcus J. Collier

I am an Associate Professor of Sustainability Science and Director of Research in the School of Natural Sciences in Trinity College Dublin. I research on social-ecological systems, ecological restoration, urban ecology, nature-based solutions, and urban novel ecosystems. I currently lead a new €2m research project called NovelEco. This is a citizen science research project measuring societal attitudes towards urban novel ecosystems and is funded by my European Research Council Consolidator grant. I was the PI of Connecting Nature (2017to 2022). This was an ambitious, €11.4m Horizon 2020 project consisting of 31 partners. This project involved innovating with nature-based solutions and co-creating with communities, to build climate and social resilience in cities. From 2011 to 2016 I was the PI of the TURAS project. This was a €9m, 32 partner FP7 project that co-devised over 80 strategies for transitioning towards more resilient and inclusive cities and produced two spin-out companies. I lecture in the area of social-ecological systems, sustainability science, and human-nature interactions.