Hi! My name is Marius von Essen - thank you for coming to my website!

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California in Los Angeles. I am interested in how governance approaches can help to reduce deforestation while improving livelihoods and ensuring equity for local and indigenous communities, with a focus on the tropics.

In my free time, I enjoy taking pictures of our natural and urban environments, documenting life in the cities and wild spaces around the world.