As Green Steps ecological director, Gloria has been instrumental in developing the National Urban Park – St. Pölten – a project application facing urban residents – since June 2021.
Early 2025 she left Green Steps and moved on to study gardening at the famous Langenlois gardening academy, and will contribute her practical learning to the ARK development.
She studied natural and environmental sciences at the University of Parma and completed a master’s degree in biology with a focus on “Animal Adaptation and Behavioral Biology” at the renowned Dutch University of Wageningen.
Her academic career has taken her to Costa Rica, where she worked with capuchin monkeys in the Lomas Barbudal Reserve, to Ecuador, where she researched the foraging behavior of capuchin monkeys in urban areas, and to Nepal, where she studied the foraging behavior of fallow deer in Bardia National Park.
Welcome back, Gloria!