- Current projects
- AgriScape – Zielkonflikte auf dem Weg zu multifunktionalen Agrarlandschaften (BMBF, 2022–2027)
- BIOcean5D – Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Prediction Across Spatial, Temporal and Human Scales (Horizon Europe, 2022–2026)
- ECO-N – Economics of Connected Natural Commons (DFG Research Training Group, 2024–2029)
- BonaRes Centre for Soil Research (BMBF, 2015–2025)
- Previous projects
Current projects
AgriScape – Zielkonflikte auf dem Weg zu multifunktionalen Agrarlandschaften (BMBF, 2022–2027)

The junior research group AgriScape (Trade-offs along pathways towards multifunctional agricultural landscapes) investigates biophysical and socio-economic trade-offs that arise in the context of a transformation of agricultural landscapes towards multifunctionality under climate change. It combines ecological modelling, multi-objective landscape optimization, agent-based modelling, behavioural studies and deliberative monetary valuation. The ultimate goal is the identification of trade-off-minimizing pathways and policy options for a case study region in Northwest Saxony (eastern Germany).
BIOcean5D – Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Prediction Across Spatial, Temporal and Human Scales (Horizon Europe, 2022–2026)

In this large-scale project focusing on the assessment of marine biodiversity along the European coast (Baltic Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea), a series of deliberative monetary valuation workshops has been conducted along the route of the TREC expedition (specifically: in Poland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy) to identify societal preferences for marine biodiversity and ecosystem services, while also comparing these across different European regions.
ECO-N – Economics of Connected Natural Commons (DFG Research Training Group, 2024–2029)
In this Research Training Group, I will collaborate with Nico Eisenhauer (iDiv) by jointly supervising two pairs of PhD projects working on soil biodiversity, soil multifunctionality and their contributions to human well-being.
BonaRes Centre for Soil Research (BMBF, 2015–2025)
My „home project“ in 2017–2022; now as PI, I am supporting and supervising work on economic valuation of soil-based ecosystem services and on soil governance.
Previous projects
- Faktencheck Artenvielfalt (BMBF, 2021–2024)
- BESTMAP – Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy (Horizon 2020, 2019–2023)
- 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2022 (Leibniz-Netzwerk Biodviersität, 2022)
- Soil4EU (EC Tender, 2017–2018)
- UBA Methodenkonvention 3.0 (UBA, 2016)

