My particular interests include green space governance (including community involvement), people-nature relationships and cultural ecosystem services, and urban forestry and urban greening. My work has brought me across the globe and I have always worked in close dialogue with decision-makers and practitioners, and I am eager to develop new research that has high practical relevance. Before coming to UBC, I worked at Wageningen University (Netherlands), the European Forest Institute (Finland), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden), and the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China). My research and teaching at UBC have focused on some of the aspects above, with strong emphasis on governance and policy aspects of urban forestry. I co-developed and taught undergraduate courses such as UFOR100 Greening the City, UFOR402 Urban Forest Administration, Policy and Law, and the capstone course. I am currently on leave from my professorship at UBC, but am still serving as Program Director of our new Master of Urban Forestry Leadership (start in summer 2021).