Dr. Yaella Depietri earned her PhD in Environmental Sciences at the Institute of Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (Spain), which she carried out jointly with the United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn (Germany), in January 2015. During her PhD she worked at the MOVE EU funded project on developing methods for the improvement of vulnerability assessment in Europe. She focused on conceptualizing and integrating the ecological dimension in the assessment of risk and vulnerability of urban areas to natural hazards. She then was a Post-Doctoral researcher at The New School in New York City (USA) for two years, working on different aspects of risk and vulnerability of the city to natural hazards, including heat waves, inland floods and coastal storms. She is now a Zeff Postdoctoral fellow at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Israel). Her research focuses on forest fires which affected the Carmel and Haifa region in 2010 and 2016. Overall, Dr. Depietri co-wrote various articles and book chapters on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction and the role of nature-based solutions to adapt cities to extreme weather and climatic events. Her research interests reside on better understanding how ecosystems and their services play a role in shaping vulnerability of urban communities to natural hazards, in exploring the tradeoffs between cultural and regulating services and how this might shape risk.