Mona Nazari is a doctoral student at the university for Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna in the Silviculture institute. Her work focuses on the forest economy specifically exploring new business models and mechanisms for sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services. She also has extensive experience in Lab-based ecological and eco-physiological research which she gained during her previous studies in Iran and her work at the dendrology department at Freiburg University, the Botany Institute at BOKU University, and Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology in Vienna.