Mark Browne

In 2000, Mark Browne secured an International Research Internship at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research in Germany. Mark then became a Researcher in Ecotoxicology at University of Plymouth. In 2004 he secured a Leverhulme Scholarship to do his first Ph.D. on microplastic. In 2008 Mark was invited to be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities at the University of Sydney. In 2012 he secured an Irish Research Council Fellowship at the University College Dublin, Ireland. Then in 2014, Mark accepted an invitation to co-lead the International Marine Debris Working Group at NCEAS as a Post-doctoral Fellow at University of California (Santa Barbara). In 2015, together with Emma Johnston, Mark secured a Discovery Grant that sees him working as a Senior Research Associate at the University of New South Wales where he is investigating the ecotoxicological impacts of microplastic in the food web.