I am Matteo Convertino, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin-Cities. In this capacity, through the HumNat Lab where I am Principal Investigator I do research and development about mathematical models and associated computational technology for socio-environmental systems design and management at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. The HumNat Lab is part of the Systems Intelligence and Strategic Design (SISD) Group that is a newborn entity at the University and that I direct. SISD is a group focused on developing and applying multiscale models for understanding and managing systems in a holis...