Technical University of Munich
Founded in 1868, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of Europe’s top universities. It is committed to excellence in research and teaching, interdisciplinary education and the active promotion of promising young scientists. The university also forges strong links with companies and scientific institutions across the world. TUM was one of the first universities in Germany to be named a University of Excellence. It regularly ranks among the best European universities in international rankings.
The partner in the present project is from the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan. At the TUM Agricultural Economics Department in Weihenstephan the Chair Group of Agricultural Production and Resource Economics with its around 30 researchers focuses on the following research areas: agri-environmental behaviour and scheme effects, productivity and efficiency of farming operations both at farm and sectoral level, factors for technology adoption and diffusion, implications of various forms of risk for farm management and development, effects of food supply chain developments on farms’ operations, challenges and opportunities from biotechnological innovations, bioeconomic modelling and the analysis of sustainable resource uses, implications of climate change for agricultural production and resource use, food security in developing areas and the contribution of farming to rural development.
Role in Project
TUM is the Project Coordinator of SIGMA-Nexus and work package leader of WPs 1 and 5.
Members
Dr. Maria Vrachioli
Project Coordinator
Maria Vrachioli is Senior researcher at the Chair Group of Agricultural Production and Resource Economics since 2018. She received her PhD from the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida in 2018. She is trained as an applied economist focusing on issues at the intersection of water resources and microeconomic theory. Her interdisciplinary research contributes toward efficiency- and productivity-enhancing policies by estimating the magnitude of gains from the more effective use of water in agriculture, using integrated hydrological and economic models.
Professor Johannes Sauer
Team member
Johannes Sauer is full professor and head of the Chair Group of Agricultural Production and Resource Economics since 2013. The research work of Professor Sauer spans the fields of agricultural production economics, natural resource economics, and applied econometrics. Professor Sauer is part of the Agricultural Economics Department at TUM. Professor Sauer is a policy advisory expert amongst others for the OECD, the World Bank, the USDA and the FAO as well as associate editor and editorial board member of Agricultural Sciences, the Journal of Productivity Analysis and the European Review of Agricultural Economics respectively.
Dr. Emmanuel Benjamin
Team member
Senior Researcher
Carolin Canessa
Team member
Junior Researcher
Olha Halytsia
Team member
Junior Researcher