Dr. Maria Gerullis
Research interests/ Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Governance of Social-ecological Systems
- Economics of Crop Breeding / Crop Genetic Resources
- Digital Innovations in Agriculture
- Climate-Change-Sustainability-Seed-nexus
- Future Laboratory Agriculture (ZLA). University of Göttingen subproject: analysis of the effects of digitization on the sustainability of agricultural processes Lower Saxony's agriculture.
- Technology choice and genetic pools in Plant Breeding (Technopool)
Research Projects/ Forschungsprojekt
Academic Career/ Akademischer Werdegang
| Since 2024 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Agriculture and Food Business Management Group, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen |
| October 2022 – Sept 2023 | Post-doctoral Researcher at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University |
| March 2022 - April 2022 | Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College - Ecology Environment Evolution and Society |
| February 2022 | Visiting Scholar at University of Kentucky |
| November 2018 – Sept 2022 | Researcher and Doctorate (Dr. agr.) at the Chair for Economic and Agricultural Policy, University of Bonn |
| January 2018 - September 2018 | Researcher and Coordinator at Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture |
| September 2015 - December 2017 | Researcher at the Chair for Agricultural Production and Resource Economics, Technical University of Munich |
Academic Education/ Akademischer Bildungsweg
| January 2019 - December 2022 | Doctoral Thesis in Agricultural Economics, University of Bonn |
| March 2022 - April 2022 | Visiting Scholar at the Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society Program, Dartmouth College |
| October 2012 - August 2015 | M.Sc. in Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Bonn |
| August 2010 - May 2011 | Year abroad - courses in masters program in economics, Central Michigan University |
| October 2008 - August 2012 | B.A. in International Business Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Selected Publications and Conferences / Ausgewählte Publikationen und Vorträge
| Bacud, E. S. T., Gerullis, M. K., Puskur, R., Heckelei, T. Looking at gender is not enough—How diversity of farmers’ marginalization relates to varietal trait preferences. Food Policy 124, April 2024, 102616. | Link |
| M., Pieruschka, R., Fahrner, S., Hartl, L., Schurr, U., & Heckelei, T. From genes to policy: Mission-oriented governance of plant-breeding research and technologies. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, 1235175. | Link |
| Gerullis, M. K., & Schulz, W. (2023). Robustness of Plant Breeding Systems under Automated Phenotyping. Smart Agricultural Technology, 100225. | Link |
| Unnikrishnan, H., Gerullis, M., Cox, M., & Nagendra, H. (2023). Unpacking dynamics of diverse nested resource systems through a diagnostic approach. Sustainability Science, 1-28. | Link |
| Kusunose, Y., Rossi, J. J., Van Sanford, D. A., Alderman, P. D., Anderson, J. A., Chai, Y., Gerullis, M. ... & Wright, B. D. (2023). Sustaining productivity gains in the face of climate change: A research agenda for US wheat. Global Change Biology, 29(4), 926-934. | Link |
| Gerullis, M., Heckelei, T., & Rasch, S. (2021). Toward understanding the governance of varietal and genetic diversity. Ecology and Society, 26(2). | Link |
| Shang, L., Heckelei, T., Gerullis, M. K., Börner, J., & Rasch, S. (2021). Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies-integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction. Agricultural systems, 190, 103074. | Link |
Book Chapters
Gerullis, M. (2016). Entstehung privater Eigentumsrechte an Weiterentwicklungen von Weizensaat inden USA und Germany. In: Biopatente (pp. 235-260). Nomos Verlag.