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Arika Ligmann-Zielinska received her doctoral degree from the Joint Doctoral Program in Geography at San Diego State University and the University of California Santa Barbara in 2008. Her doctoral specialty lies in spatial decision support and spatial analysis modeling, with her dissertation focused on "Exploring Normative Scenarios of Land-Use Development Decisions via Agent-Based Simulation Laboratory", supervised by Professor Piotr Jankowski, Ph.D. Prior to her doctoral studies, she completed her MS degree (summa cum laude) at the Department of Geography and Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Arika's research encompasses a broad range of modeling approaches that capture dynamic relationships in coupled human-natural systems. Specifically, she employs agent-based models in computational laboratories, enabling the exploration of scenario building and the characteristics of complex system interrelationships between societies and landscapes.
Department of Psychology