Maria Schewenius is project manager at Stockholm Resilience Centre. She has more than five years of experience of working with research projects focusing on urbanization, management of urban social-ecological systems, and resilience. Projects include the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook, the world's first global assessment of urbanization trends and the links to- and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity. A current project is C/O City, which aims to support tools and methods for urban green infrastructure, based on case cities in Sweden and Latin America. Exploring ways to bridge between science and practice, she is also the founder of a new start-up that uses personal fitness training to support health and sustainability conscious solutions within the textile, food, and urban landscape development sectors in practice.She holds a MSc in Ecosystems, Governance and Globalization from Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.