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Moira L. Zellner, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
412 South Peoria Street
227 CUPPAH, MC 348
Phone: 312-996-2149
Email: mzellner@uic.edu
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2005
Certificate in Complex System, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2003
M.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2000
B.S., Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1995
Moira Zellner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy and a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute of Environmental Science and Policy.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Moira earned her undergraduate degree in ecology at the Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas, and pursued graduate studies in urban and regional planning and in complex systems at the University of Michigan. Before coming to the US, she worked in Argentina as a consultant on environmental issues for local and international environmental engineering firms and for the undersecretary of Environment in the City of Buenos Aires, in projects related to domestic and hazardous waste management, river remediation, industrial pollution control, and environmental impact assessments. She also participated in interdisciplinary and international research projects of urban air pollution and of the spread of tuberculosis through public transportation.
In the US, her professional and academic work includes greenway development
and river restoration projects in Miami Beach and in California, transportation
surveys, and more recently, agent-based modeling of land-use change and ecological
impacts. In her dissertation she shows how such models can be useful exploratory
tools to study the complexity of urban and regional processes affecting the
sustainability of groundwater in Monroe County, Michigan.