I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, interested in urban socio-ecological systems. I am a quantitative ecologist flirting with the qualitative side of research by assessing ecosystem services and their relation to non-biophysical variables. I am interested in analyzing patterns through landscape ecology lenses and using spatial statistic analysis. It is of my interest to connect science to policy and decision-making by understanding the processes that lead to decisions and what needs to be done in order to shift it toward sustainability and resilience