Meet the NorFish team


The NorFish team consists of an interdisciplinary group of researchers. Click on a team member's image below to read their bio and role in the project.






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Professor of Environmental Humanities

Research interests: environmental humanities, translational humanities and maritime history

Poul Holm
Principal Investigator, ERC Advanced Grant
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Project Officer, ERC Advanced Grant

Manages the administration for ERC Advanced Grant, IMPACT-EV, the COST / Oceans Past Platform, H-MAP, the Digital Arts and Humanities funded PhD programme.

Joanne Darcy
Project Officer, ERC Advanced Grant
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of History, University of Texas, Arlington.

Research interests: human geography, geographical information systems, digital humanities, environmental humanities.

Dr. Charles Travis
Visiting Research Fellow
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Marie Curie Individual Fellow (2016-2018), School of Histories and Humanities, TCD

Research Interests:Research Interests: Environmental History, Climate History, Climate of the North Atlantic...

Dr. Francis Ludlow
Marie Curie Individual Fellow (2016-2018)
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Associate Professor of Geography, Northern Michigan University

Research Interests: human geography, geographical information systems, digital humanities, environmental humanities.

Dr. Robert Legg
Visiting Research Fellow
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Political and historical geographer

Research Interests:Political geography, international boundary studies, historical cartography, the Middle East, and modern Irish and British history

Dr. Kieran Rankin
Research Fellow
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Post-doctoral researcher in applied marine ecology

Research Interests: the assessment of the health of our marine ecosystem to find holistic, interdisciplinary approaches in managing human pressure...

Dr. Cordula Scherer
Research Fellow
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Researcher and Data Manager

Research Interests: Data management, philosophy, historical research.

John Nicholls
Data Manager
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PhD Candidate, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD

Research Interests: Exploring historical environmental data sources through Statistical analysis including computer programming.

Al Matthews
PhD Candidate
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PhD Candidate, Research Assistant, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD

Research Interests: Environmental history, marine environmental history, early modern history...

Patrick Hayes
PhD Candidate
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Research Assistant, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD

Research Interests: Digital humanities, digital heritage practices, musicology, history.

Richard Breen
Research Assistant