Education

• Ph.D. Agricultural Economics “cum laude”, University Bonn
• M.Sc. Agricultural Economics, Imperial College London, Wye/UK
• M.Sc. Political Science and Economics, Universities Tübingen and Hamburg

Professional experience

• since 10/2013 Full Professor (W3) and Head of Chair, TU München
• 2011-2013 Professor, Endowed Chair, CAU Kiel
• 2009-2011 Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics und Research Theme Leader, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, UK
• 2007-2009 Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Department of Economics und Center for European Agri-Environmental Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK;
• 2005-2007 Assistant/Associate Professor, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2004-2005 Senior Researcher, Center for Development Research, Bonn

Research areas

• Production, efficiency and organizational analysis
• Technology adaption and sustainable innovation
• Agri-environmental behaviour at farm level
• Risk analysis
• Economics of water resrouces and biodiversity
• Microeconometric modelling

Teaching activities

• Production theory and accounting
• Business planning in agricultural economics
• Research methods
• Production and risk management
• Production economics and management
• Applied statistics and econometrics
• Life science economics and policy
• Advanced natural resource economics
• Climate change economics

Research projects

• Dynamics of productivity growth in the OECD dairy sectors (Staff Loan, OECD, Paris)
• Technological change and scale
• Extreme events and farm behaviour
• Agri-environmental behaviour at farm level

Activities and awards

• Since 2015: Associate Editor (Editorial Board Member), European Review of Agricultural Economics
• Since 2015: Member Steering Committee Hans Eisenmann Zentrum, TUM
• Since 2015: Member Steering Committee TUM Water Cluster
• Since 10/2014: Head of Research Department Agricultural Economics, TUM
• 2011 Scottish Government, Peer Review College Member, Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate, Edinburgh, UK
• Since 2010: Associate Editor (Editorial Board Member), Journal of Productivity Analysis
• 2010-2014, 2015-2019 UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC), Peer Review College Member

Publications

• Investment, Technical Change and Efficiency - Empirical Evidence from German Dairy Production. European Review of Agricultural Economics. 2014 (with U.Latacz-Lohmann)
• A Dominance Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Beef Output and Land Use of German Dairy Farms. Agricultural Systems. 2014 (with M.Zehetmeier et al.)
• The Impact of Decoupled Subsidies on Productivity in Agriculture. Agricultural Economics. 2013, 45: 1-10 (with A.Kazukauskas, C.Newman)
• Disinvestment, Farm Size and Gradual Farm Exit. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. first published online: July 12, 2013 (with A.Kazukauskas, C.Newman, D.Clancey)
• Marketed Outputs and Non-Marketed Ecosystem Services. European Review of Agricultural Economics. first published online: December 21, 2012. print: 2013, 40 (4): 573-603 (with A.Wossink)    ...more