SHIELD focuses on assessing the potential of green hydrogen and ammonia within Ukraine’s energy system. The primary objective of SHIELD is to provide decision support tools to assist the Ukrainian government in balancing its immediate energy needs with its longer-term energy transition goals. 

• 2024 - 2026 

• Collaboration: University of Oxford, University College London, Imperial College London, Technical University of Munich, and the Kiev School of Economics

• Role: Post-doctoral researcher

Funding by the UK's Foreign Development and Commonwealth Office (FCDO) 

This project uses an experimental design to evaluate the longer-term impact of organic farming training in Indonesia on the adoption of sustainable farming practices and chemical input use. Building on the IndOrganic project (see below), it adds a second training wave and a fourth round of data collection, creating a unique four-wave panel of 1,200 smallholders surveyed in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2023. The new training deepens farmers' knowledge of organic practices and is complemented by soil testing. We further collect rich qualitative data.

• 2021 - 2024

• Collaboration with Michael Grimm (University of Passau)

• Role: Co-PI

Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

This project investigates how simple, low-cost soil tests can be introduced in rural Indonesia to improve soils, prevent erosion, and protect groundwater. Using a large randomized field experiment with about 1,200 farmers across 60 villages, the project generates evidence on the effectiveness of soil testing under real-life conditions. A complementary willingness-to-pay experiment measures how much farmers value the information provided by soil tests.

• 2021 - 2024

• Collaboration with Michael Grimm (University of Passau)

• Role: Co-PI

Funding provided by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)

IndORGANIC analyses the current state and long-term potential of organic farming to improve food sustainability in Indonesia. The project takes an inter- and transdisciplinary approach, examining organic farming as an alternative to conventional agriculture from anthropological, social, and economic perspectives. At its core is a randomized controlled trial with 1,200 smallholder farmers in Java, designed to evaluate the impact of organic farming training on adoption and farming practices. 

• 2016-2021

• Role: Doctoral researcher

Funding by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF)