Our research centre has 3 senior researchers, and 2 phd students and 2 post docs. We are experts in biodiversity finance, a field that uses financial theory to understand, price, and manage nature-related risks and opportunities. We work at the interface of finance, ecology, and policy to develop tools and frameworks that integrate biodiversity into financial decision-making and regulation.

Our strengths lie in ESG integration, systemic risk modelling, spatial finance, and sustainability transitions. We develop methodologies to assess biodiversity impacts and dependencies using geospatial data, financial analytics, and scenario modelling. We have extensive experience with the EU Taxonomy, SFDR, TNFD, and other regulatory frameworks.

We are WP leaders in project BioSolar, from the BiodivNBS call. Here, we are responsible for developing biodiversity finance models, and help bridge the disciplinary siloes between natural and social science.

We are also active in behavioural finance and interdisciplinary research on just transitions. Our team combines academic rigour with policy and practitioner engagement. We are looking to join a consortium where our expertise in biodiversity-linked financial tools, systemic risk, and nature-positive investments can create added value.

Economics
Management sciences

We are researchers and practitioners in investments and finance, who cover ESG investing, sustainable finance, climate finance. New area of research is financing solutions for biodiversity preservation, we are looking for theoretical economic models as well empirical research to find the (financial) value of nature, and seek innovative financial tools that help fund or alleviate risk.

biodiversity finance, funding of nature positive projects, climate finance, sustainable finance, esg investing, sustainability in finance, transition risk, physical risk, nature-related financial risk

AFML (Budapest) 15th October, 2025
Brussels, Corvinus University's Liason Office, lead by officer Orsolya Lugmayer lugmayero@inf.elte.hu