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Anna van der Kaaden is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University with a focus on how feedbacks between organisms and their environment affect ecosystem resilience. Her teaching includes courses on Systems Thinking, Climate and Society, and Ecosystem Change in the Anthropocene at University College Utrecht. Her research explores seemingly insignificant local interactions that can cause ecosystem-scale phenomena and spatial patterns in ecological and physical systems, especially in deep-sea savannas. Van der Kaaden emphasizes the importance of qualitative science communication through her own company, mAKe, to articulate complex ecological interactions. Her PhD research concentrated on the dynamics of cold-water coral reefs, revealing that interactions between corals and their fluid environments create feedback mechanisms that influence coral mound formation and survival. She has specialized in the study of arid ecosystems and the formation of ecological patterns and extinction dynamics within these environments.
Department of Psychology