Date / place of birth
April 13th 1981/ Dillingen a.d. Donau
Dissertation Topic
Adoption and Impacts of Technologies in Maize Systems in Malawi
University Degrees
M.Sc. in Tropical and International Agriculture (2012) at Georg-August-University Göttingen
Master thesis: “The economic performance of integrated pond irrigation in smallholder maize production: A case study from Chingale, Southern Malawi”
B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics (2008) at Georg-August-University Göttingen
Bachelor thesis: “Civil war, agriculture and post-conflict scenarios”
Work/Research Experience
The WorldFish Center, Zomba, Malawi
° Research assistant (February – July 2011)
° Project: “Enhancing adaptive capacity to climate change impacts through well-managed water use for aquaculture integrated with small-scale irrigation in the Chinyanja Triangle in Africa (Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia)”
Department of Agricultural Crop Science, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
° Student research assistant (August – October 2010)
° Project: “Grassland fodder production in Lower Saxony, Germany, under the influence of climate change”
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria
° Research assistant and consultant (July – November 2009)
° Cassava Enterprise Development Project (CEDP): “Assessing the business performance of CEDP-assisted cassava processing enterprises in the South-south and South-east of Nigeria”
° Scholarship by ASA/InWent GmbH
German International Development Agency (GIZ), Eschborn, Germany
° Internship (April – June 2009)
at the division for „Agriculture, fisheries and nutrition“
