Todd BenDor is the Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Community Design in the UNC Institute for the Environment and the chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning. He also is the former director of UNC’s Odum Institute for Research in Social Sciences, a social data science center that helps students, faculty and staff improve the quality, rigor and reproducibility of their research through consultation and training. BenDor’s teaching and mentoring focus on the areas of environmental and development impact assessment, watershed planning, systems thinking and modeling, and urban spatial structure. His research generally focuses on ecological restoration and climate adaptation policy. His research uses qualitative, statistical, and simulation modeling methods to improve: 1) the real-world implementation of environmental markets, such as wetland and stream mitigation, water quality trading and endangered species mitigation markets, 2) our understanding of the environmental impacts of urban growth and change, 3) policies aimed at urban resilience, including floodplain buyouts and flood insurance, and 4) how we approach and engage in environmental conflict resolution. BenDor is a faculty member in UNC’s Environment, Ecology and Energy Program. He holds a B.S. from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. from Washington State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.