Kaja Plevnik is a young researcher at the Slovenian Forestry Institute from 2020 onward. She has a background in forestry (diploma thesis on private forest owners’ satisfaction with membership in an association of owners, 2020). She received her graduate education at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and continues her postgraduate program there. Ever since, she has been working on her PhD project dealing with a comprehensive assessment of the provision of forest ecosystem services in the context of different stakeholder groups and the development of effective uptake mechanisms for policy design. In addition, she is involved in several research projects, mainly with forest management and governance of protected areas. Her research interests extend from stakeholders’ management in the forestry sector to investigating the potential for the development of payment schemes that would foster the provision of forest ecosystem services.