Lena Crnjac

Lena Crnjac is a doctoral candidate in the 'Levers for Increasing Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (HABIT)' program, a collaboration between the University of Hohenheim and Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences (HfWU). She concurrently serves as an academic staff member at HfWU's Institute for Applied Agricultural Sciences and previously worked as an academic assistant at the Faculty of Environmental Design Therapy (FUGT). Her research focuses on optimizing biodiversity-promoting measures in agricultural ecosystems, assessing their impacts on cultural ecosystem services (e.g., recreation and landscape aesthetics) in peri-urban areas like the Stuttgart metropolitan region.

Education includes a B.Eng. in Landscape Planning and Nature Conservation (2018–2022) and an M.Eng. in Urban Landscape Transformation (2022–2024), both from HfWU. She completed internships at landscape planning firms Kunz GaLaPlan (2020–2021) and StadtLandFluss (2024). Her work integrates economic, environmental, and social dimensions through participatory approaches, aiming to develop actionable recommendations for sustainable agroecosystems.

Research interests include biodiversity conservation, regional development strategies, and the psychological dimensions of human-landscape interactions. Her doctoral project employs scenario-based modeling to evaluate synergies and trade-offs in biodiversity measures.