Ingrid van de Leemput is an Assistant Professor at the department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her main interest concerns the development of simple models and statistical tools, to understand and indicate the resilience of complex systems. Her main focus lies on systems with alternative stable states and tipping points. Currently, her specific interest concerns theories to get a better understanding of shifts in social-ecological marine systems, coral reefs, and the analysis of multivariate time series in order to improve the existing resilience indicators.