Gianni Guastella is Assistant Professor at Catholic University, where he teaches Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Financial Mathematics and Econometrics. He holds an MSc in Economic Geography from the Utrecht University and a PhD in Economic Policy from the Catholic University. As a post-doc, he has worked on several FP7 projects related to the land markets. His research interests include urbanisation and sprawl, carbon emissions and pollutant concentration in cities, nature-based solutions for cities decarbonisation, spatial planning and natural resource management policies. He specialised in statistical modelling of spatial data with applications to urban growth and soil-management problems.