Maria Teresa joined the University of Birmingham as a master’s student after completing her undergraduate degree in Peru and working in the education sector and also as consultant at The World Bank in Lima. She then rejoined the University of Birmingham as a PhD student in Economics. She successfully completed her doctoral studies, where she studied the capitalisation of wildfire risk as revealed through the housing market, as a signal of changes and differences in safety preferences following wildfire events. Since then, she worked as Research Fellow in the university for the Department of Economics at the Centre for Crime, Justice, and Policing (CCJP), where she deepened her knowledge on social conflict and crime from an economics perspective. Currently, she is Research Fellow at the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA). In this role, Maria Teresa supports research engagement across the university on various aspects of the sustainability agenda (including health, finance, adaptation and resilience, and AI) and is researching on topics related to social impacts of natural disasters and environmental degradation.