Affiliations
since 2020 Assistant Professor, Business Economics Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands
2018-2020 Postdoc, Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2016-2018 PhD Student, Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2015-2016 Research Assistant, Production Economics Group, University of Bonn, Germany
Education
2018 PhD in Agricultural Economics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Switzerland)
2015 MSc Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Bonn, Germany
2013 BSc Agricultural Science, University of Bonn, Germany
Awards
2023 2 out of 5 most cited papers of the decade in the European Review of Agricultural Economics
2023 Societal impact Award in honor of Giovanni Anania for 2021 of the European Association of Agricultural Economists
2022 Outstanding paper award of the European Review of Agricultural Economics
2021 Best presentation award at the 2021 meeting of the Swiss Society of Agriculturel Economics and Rural Sociology
2021 Climate Protection Award for private engagement in nature conservation, Westenergie Essen (Germany)
2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Environmental Research Letters
2019 ETH Medal for an outstanding PhD thesis, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
2019 Best Paper award at the 171th EAAE Seminar: Vroege, W., Bucheli, J.,Dalhaus, T., Hirschi, M. & Robert Finger ‘Evaluating satellite soil moisture data for index insurances’.
Teaching
ETH Zürich
Microeconomics of the Agricultural and Food Sector (BSc)
Interdisciplinary Project (MSc)
Empirical Agricultural Economics (MSc)
Food Industrial Organization (MSc)
Wageningen University & Research
Analytics for Business Economics (MSc)
Advanced Business Economics (MSc)
Investment Analysis (MSc)
Advanced Supply Chain Management (MSc)
Technology and Business Model Innovation (MSc)
Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Agriculture Summer School (MSc & PhD)
Invited Talks
2024 Resilience to Extreme Events in Food Supply Chains (Agrarökonomisches Seminar, Göttingen University)
2024 Risikomanagement in Zeiten des Klimawandels (Arbeitskreis für Betriebsführung Münsterland, Ascheberg)
2023 Weather Insurance in European Crop and Horticulture production, invited talk (European Commission CDG on the CAP Strategic Plans and Horizontal Measures)
2023 Hitze und Trockenheit versichern – Ein Ausblick aus der Wissenschaft (Vereinigte Hagelversicherung, Münster)
2023 Erträge absichern aus dem Büro: Was bieten Versicherungen, invited research presentation for farmers (Acker- und Saatbauverein Münsterland, Nottuln)
2022 Klimawandel: Risikomanagement in der Landwirtschaft, invited research presentation for farmers (WLV Delegiertenversammlung, Werl)
2021 Dos & Don'ts bei Ernteversicherungen ein Bericht aus der Wissenschaft. Invited research presentation for farmers (organized by gvf Versicherungsmakler)
2020 1st Webinar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists on "Dealing with extreme weather in Agriculture" (Organizer & Presenter)
2020 AFRE Departmental Seminar Series at Michigan State University: "Impact and Management of Weather Extreme In Agriculture: The role of non-linearities"
Refereeing
See my Web of Science author and reviewer profile