Dr. Anže Japelj is a research fellow at the Slovenian Forestry Institute from 2006 onwards. He has a background in forestry (diploma thesis on sustainable forest management, 2006) and environmental economics (dissertation thesis on economic valuation of opportunities for outdoor recreation in urban forests, 2016). He received his graduate and postgraduate education at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Ever since, he has been working on numerous research projects, either nationally or internationally funded (LIFE+/IP, Interreg, FP6&7, Horizon 2020, Era-Net, PRIMA, COST). Occasionally, he provides lectures at the University of Ljubljana. He also completed scientific visits at the European Forest Institute (Barcelona, Spain; Joensuu, Finland) and the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, US). Initially, his field of research was forest management, but this was extended to the area of non-market valuation of forest ecosystem services and beyond (soil ecosystem services, large carnivores, urban ecosystems, etc.). Recently, his interests have also provided research findings for policy uptake, especially in the context of different stakeholders in the forestry sector. He is also an active member (officer deputy) in IUFRO group 4.05.05 and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Acta Silvae et Ligni. ORCID id 0000-0002-7361-0710