Mario Brillinger is a PhD student at PlanSmart and is mainly concerned with administrative decision-making for nature-based solutions in flood risk management. His research interests include the analysis of (water) governance regimes, participatory approaches of environmental-economic valuation and finance models for nature-based solutions. He holds a Master degree in Agricultural Science with focus on resource management from the University of Göttingen and a Bachelor degree in Environmental Science from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany.