Ms. Merel De Cock, Junior Science Support Officer (Intern)

Merel graduated from Ghent University with a Master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering, with a specialisation in land, water, and climate. She also took an elective course on Applied Marine Ecology. Her Master’s Dissertation focused on sustainable site selection of offshore wind farms in the North Sea, considering economic as well as environmental and social criteria. Working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), she used data from EMODnet to complete this Dissertation.

As an intern for Seascape Belgium, she will be supporting the team by contributing to the Horizon Europe projects TRICUSO, Aquaphoenix, MARCO-BOLO and eDNA-Aquaplan as a Junior Science Support Officer.