I am a guest professor in urban ecology at the Freie Universität Berlin, a PostDoc alumni from the Technische Universität Berlin and Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) with a Ph.D. in Urban Ecology from the University of Melbourne and German Diplom in Biology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Since my PhD, I am passionate about combining ecological research with social science theories. I strongly believe that conservation is much more effective when we also understand people since, as we all know, most threats to nature and wildlife are caused by human behaviour.  So, I love to come from ‘both sides’: from the ecological as well as from the social science perspective to find solutions for ‘shared urban landscapes’ in which nature, wildlife and people can coexist and thrive. When it comes to wildlife, my major passion are bats. When it comes to human-nature interactions in urban areas, I am interested in landscape preferences, understanding drivers of acceptance (e.g. biodiversity management strategies), communication for conservation (e.g. photo stimuli, storytelling) and in my new project in health relationships between urban wildlife and people. Working with vibrant colleagues and students, I also enjoy conversations around ethics in conservation (acknowledging that our approach to science is never free from our own values).