Dr. Christoph Kubitza

• 04/2015 - PhD-Student in the Collaborative Research Center 990: Ecological and socioeconomic functions of tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems (Sumatra, Indonesia) at Georg-August-University Göttingen

Current field of research
Determinants of land use change of smallholder farmers, Impact of land use changes on household welfare among smallholder farmers


Education

• 04/2013 - 04/2015 M. A. in Development Economics at Georg-August-University
  Göttingen
• 04/2011 - 04/2013 B. A. in International Economics and Development at Bayreuth University
• 08/2012 - 01/2013 Exchange semester, Economics at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil
• 10/2009 - 04/2011 Study of Economics and Portuguese Studies at Georg-August-University Göttingen

Professional Experience

• 08/2014 - 10/2014 Field Research Supervisor in Uganda on behalf of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
• 01/2014 ? 12/2014 Research assistant at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies/Institute for African Area Studies (GIGA)
• 10/2013 - 03/2014 Tutor for Macroeconomics at Georg-August-University Göttingen
• 08/2013 - 10/2013 Internship/Research assistant at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Institute for African Area Studies (IAA)
• 08/2011 - 10/2011 Internship in microfinance at NaCSA in Sierra Leone

Languages
German, English, Portuguese