Špela Čonč is a research assistant at the Anton Melik Geographical Institute at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is a Ph.D. student of Biosciences (Protection of the Natural Heritage) in the Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In her Ph.D. she is focused on studying how Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) movement and ecology depend on geomorphological features. Her main interests are geodiversity and geomorphology, biodiversity and ecology, geographic information system and nature conservation. She is an active member of Society Dinaricum and member of Ljubljana Geographical Society's Executive Committee and Short Excursion's commissioner. She received the award for the best ESRI final work for the academic year 2018/2019 by GDi d.o.o. (Slovenia, 2019) for her Master's degree.