Dr. Anne Marie O’Hagan has over 20 years of experience in coastal and marine research and is currently a Senior Research Fellow in MaREI: the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, part of the Environmental Research Institute in University College Cork. Anne Marie is currently the Principal Investigator on the Marine Institute-funded CoCoMar project on Co-existence and Co-location in shared island Marine governance and previously led the Navigate project on Ocean Law and Marine Governance (2018-2023). Until 2018, she was the Coordinator of the SIMCelt project on supporting Implementation of MSP in the Celtic Seas with seven partners from Ireland, UK and France and has since coordinated its successor, the SIMAtlantic project, which covers the Atlantic area. Anne Marie qualified in Environmental Science before undertaking a Ph.D. on the legal framework for integrated coastal management in Ireland. She subsequently completed a degree in law whilst working full-time at the Marine Law & Ocean Policy Centre in the National University of Ireland, Galway. Anne Marie moved to University College Cork in 2007 where she worked initially in the former Coastal & Marine Research Centre (CMRC) on national and European projects on coastal management and adaptation to climate change in coastal areas. In 2009, she took up a position in the former Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC) as part of the prestigious Charles Parsons Research Award, a government initiative designed to build capacity in key research areas where her work focused on legal and policy frameworks for ocean energy development. She has been involved in numerous multidisciplinary projects including the EU funded COEXIST project on interaction in coastal waters, SOWFIA project on streamlining environmental assessment for wave energy farms; RiCORE on risk-based consenting; and AQUASPACE on spatial planning for

Integrated Coastal Management, Maritime Spatial Planning, marine law and policy, coastal resilience and adaptation, offshore renewable energy, planning and consenting of offshore developments, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs), co-existence and co-location, sustainable blue economy development.