Date/Place of Birth
January 18th 1982, Clausthal-Zellerfeld

University degrees
Dipl.-Geogr. (geographer), Georg-August-University of Göttingen

Studies
10/2003 – 09/2008 Geography, Political Science and Ethnology at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen

Academic Experience
11/2008 – 03/2009 Graduated research assistant at the Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen
01/2007 – 06/2007 Research assistant at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) project “The Balance of Urban Growth and Redevelopment in Ho Chi Minh City/ Vietnam – Sustainable Housing Policies for Megacities of Tomorrow” at the University of Göttingen
08/2006 – 09/2008 Research assistant at the Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen

Work Experience
08/2007 – 09/2007 Internship at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture, Department of Urban Planning on behalf of the Urban Environmental Planning Programme (UEPP-VN), funded by the European Commission (EC)

Topic of Dissertation
Impact Assessment of Rural Development Projects on Household Income and Poverty. The Case of the Second Rural Development Programme for Timor Leste (RDP II).

Research Project
The research is carried out in the frame of the Second Rural Development Programme for Timor Leste (RDPII), funded by the European Comission (EC) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
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Publications
Noltze, M., Schwarze, S., Qaim, M.,(2012). Understanding the adoption of system technologies in smallholder agriculture: The system of rice intensification (SRI) in Timor Leste. Agricultural Systems 108, 64-73.

Noltze, M., Schwarze, S. & Qaim, M. (2011). Knowledge-Based Agricultural Innovations in Asia: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Timor Leste. In: Pacific News. No. 35. January/February 2011. pp. 4-9. Available at: http://www.pacific-news.de/pn35/PN35_noltze.pdf

Deichert, G., Barros, J., & Noltze, M. (2009). Introducing the System of Rice Intensification in Timor Leste - Experiences and Prospects. Paper presented at the 7th PAWEES Conference on Promising Practices for the Development of Sustainable Paddy Fields.

Noltze, M. (2008). Backyard Living–Integrative Policies Towards Migrant
Workers: Housing Microfinance in Greater Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 1(2), 19-33.

Discussion Papers
Kemper, D., Noltze, M., Weber, R., & Faust, H. (2008). The role of
agricultural 'knowledge' in rural communities of Central Sulawesi,
Indonesia. STORMA Discussion Paper Series, 27.

Woeller, F., Noltze, M., & Faust, H. (2008). Gender Aspects in Tropical
Agriculture - a Qualitative Case Study in the Forest Margin Zone of
Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. STORMA Discussion Paper Series, 24.

Presentations
Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management (TROPENTAG) (October 2011). Understanding the adoption of system technologies in smallholder agriculture: the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Timor Leste. 05-07 October, Bonn, Germany.

Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) (September 2011). Understanding the adoption of system technologies in smallholder agriculture: the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Timor Leste. 30 August - 02 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

3rd International Rice Congress (IRC) (November 2010). Explaining SRI (System of Rice Intensification) adoption among smallholder farmers in Timor Leste. Poster presentation. Nov 08 – Nov 12. 2010. Hanoi. Abstract available at: http://www.ricecongress.com/pdflink/3937.pdf


3rd Viennese Conference on South-East Asia (June 2008): "Backyard
Identities ‐ Integrative Policies towards Migrant Workers. Housing
Microfinance in Greater Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam". Vienna, Austria.



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