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Moira Zellner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Rm. 227 CUPPA
EMAIL: mzellner@uic.edu

PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2005
Certificate in Complex System, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2003
MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2000
BS, Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1995

Assistant professor in the Urban Planning and Policy at University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliated researcher with the Institute of Environmental Science and Policy (IESP) at UIC.

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.

Publications:
Brown, D.G.; Page, S.E.; Riolo, R; Zellner, M.L.; Rand, W.; In Press. "Path dependence and the validation of agent-based spatial models of land use." International Journal of Geographic Information Science, Special Issue on Land Use Dynamics

Zellner, M. L.; Riolo, R.; Rand. W.; Page, S. E.; Brown, D. G.; Fernandez, L. E.; 2003. “The Interaction Between Zoning Regulations and Residential Preferences as a Driver of Urban Form.” Proceedings of 2003 UTEP Distinguished Faculty and Student Symposium, Urban and Regional Planning Program, University of Michigan.

Rand, W.; Zellner, M. L.; Page, S. E.; Riolo, R.; Brown, D. G.; Fernandez, L. E.; 2002. “The Complex Interaction of Agents and Environments: An Example in Urban Sprawl.” Proceedings of Agent 2002, A Workshop on Social Agents: Ecology, Exchange and Evolution, University of Chicago.

Zellner, M. L.; 1998. “Demographic Transitions and Equitable Water-Use in the Reconquista River Basin, Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina).” In: 1998 Monograph Population-Environment Dynamics: Transitions and Sustainability; The University of Michigan Population Environment-Dynamics NRE 545 and EIH 575.

Selected Presentations
Zellner, M. L.; “Generating Policies for Sustainable Water-Use in Complex Scenarios: An Agent-Based Model of Monroe County, Michigan.” GeoComputation 2005, Ann Arbor; August 2005.

Zellner, M. L.; Page, S. E.; Rand, W.; Brown, D. G.; Nassauer, J.; Robinson, D. T.; "The Emergence of Zoning Policy Games in Exurban Jurisdictions." 2005 Association of American Geographers Meeting, Denver; April 2005.

Brown, D. G.; Zellner, M. L.; Nassauer, J.; Low, B.; Rand, W. M.; Page, S. E.; Riolo, R. L.; Robinson, D. T.; “Land-Use Decision Making by Multiple Actors at the Urban-Rural Fringe and the Amount of Forest Cover.” The 30th Congress of the International Geographic Union (IGU), Glasgow, UK; August 2004.

Zellner, M. L.; Santana-Morant, D.; Hernández-Suárez, C. M.; “Dynamics of HIV/AIDS in core groups in the presence of a transient population.” Invitational Mathematics Meeting - Student Presentations, National Security Agency; August 1997.