Prof Karyn Morrissey

Honorary fellow

 

Karyn Morrissey in a Professor in Applied Economics under the Sustainability Division of the Department of Technology, Management, and Economics at the Technical University of Denmark. An economist and econometrician by background, but previously working in a Department of Geography (University of Liverpool) and a Medical School (University of Exeter) she situates her work as an inter-disciplinary, methods driven scientist, in the field human health and the environment.

Karyn’s research is specifically driven by policy as demonstrated by her work with the Lancet Commission’s ‘The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change’, where she is co-author for Working Group 2 on adaptation, planning, and resilience for health, where she has developed the cities indicator.

Completing her PhD in 2009, Karyn’s career highlights include being made a fellow of the prestigious Turing Institute in 2018; contributing to 90+ publications in leading journals including Nature Ecology & Evolution and the Lancet and attracting over £20 million in external funding.  Karyn has supervised numerous master students and Ph.D. students.

 

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