Two new doctoral students for two new EU projects
Franziska Walther is a doctoral researcher working on ecosystem services in mountain areas. Milan Loreti is originally from Luxembourg and has completed his BSc studies in Ecology at the University of Vienna and his MSc studies in Industrial Ecology at TU Delft & Leiden University.
Franziska Walther deeply cares about the complex relations of nature and people. Therefore, Franziska will focus on quantifying the entangled uncertainties in ecosystem services assessments and their impact on decision-making. Her work is embedded within the external pageSELINA project that aims to create guidance towards evidence-based and sustainable decisions about natural capital. She holds a MSc in Global Change Geography from the Humboldt-University of Berlin, and a BSc in Geography from Leipzig University.
Milan Loreti – After finishing his studies, he worked for one year as a junior researcher at the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), concentrating foremost on the assessment of urban nature-based solutions as well as improving urban applicability of the GLOBIO model. Subsequently Milan worked for one year as a climate change consultant in Norway. At PLUS, Milan will be concentrating on understanding the influence that local actors have on their landscape, such as by the creation of an agent-based land-use model in the frame of the new EU-Project MOSAIC.