Mika Abe, PhD, holds a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists at Kyoto Prefectural University. She was born in Milan, Italy. After completing the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Leicester, UK, worked as an associate professor at Senshu University in Japan, and then became a part-time lecturer at Doshisha University, and later a researcher at Kyoto University. She specializes in historical/cultural geography and landscape theory.