Marta Verza is a PhD student at the University of Bologna under the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL). She holds an MSc European double degree in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis (AFEPA) from UCLouvain (Belgium) and the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (Germany). She has worked in several EU funded projects and is currently working in a HORIZON 2020 project called “BIOVALUE” on the enhancement of biodiversity along agri-food value chains through the use of agent-based simulations. As a researcher, her fields of interest relate to biodiversity and sustainability assessments, agri-food value-chain analysis, agents’ behavior, quantitative and modelling techniques analysis. Since 2022, she has been a member of the “European Association of Agricultural Economists” (EAAE) and “Società Italiana di Economia Agraria” (SIDEA).