Projects

  1. Current projects
    1. AgriScape – Zielkonflikte auf dem Weg zu multifunktionalen Agrarlandschaften (BMBF, 2022–2027)
    2. BIOcean5D – Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Prediction Across Spatial, Temporal and Human Scales (Horizon Europe, 2022–2026)
    3. LAFERIA – Landscape Features Reintroduction in Intensive Agricultural Land (Horizon Europe, 2025–2028)
    4. ECO-N – Economics of Connected Natural Commons (DFG Research Training Group, 2024–2029)
  2. 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 nonmarket 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.

LAFERIA – Landscape Features Reintroduction in Intensive Agricultural Land (Horizon Europe, 2025–2028)

The focus of this large-scale project overlaps to some extent with AgriScape – my group’s contribution consists in the coupling of an agent-based model of farmers‘ decision making with the biodiversity model Persefone.jl to simulate policy scenarios for the reintroduction of landscape features (e.g. hedges or flower strips) and their effects on above-ground biodiversity.

ECO-N – Economics of Connected Natural Commons (DFG Research Training Group, 2024–2029)

In this Research Training Group, I collaborate with Nico Eisenhauer (iDiv), among others, by jointly supervising two pairs of PhD projects working on soil biodiversity, soil multifunctionality and their contributions to human well-being.

Previous projects