Dr. Katherine Sammler is a Fulbright Scholar collaborating with researchers at Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN or National Research and Innovation Agency) in Jakarta. Their collaboration focuses on offshore conservation and development policy, ocean knowledge production, and marine governance. Through interviews, site visits, and spatial analysis, she examines the implications of changing national, regional, and international marine policies for ocean and human health.

Dr. Sammler has held academic appointments as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Knowledge, Technology, and Sustainability Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and of Global Studies & Maritime Affairs at California State University in the U.S. Dr. Sammler also led the Marine Political Ecology research cluster at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity in Germany.

Dr. Sammler holds a Ph.D. in Geography and a master’s degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Oregon.